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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY. 



/ BY 

W. E. SHEPARD, 

Evangelist, 



''Now all these things happened unto them for 
ensamples : (types, see margin) and they are written 
for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world 
are come. ^' i Cor. io:ii. 






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1896. 






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1896, 

By W. E. ShKpard. 




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PREFACE. 

We send forth these pages with the 
prayer that all that meets the approval of 
Christ may be blest to the upbuilding of 
His Zion, and that all mistakes may be 
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handing the book to some hungry soul, 
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We do not claim entire originality in 
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already of old time, which was before us." 
EccL I : pj lo. 

We know of no work devoted ex- 
clusively to holiness types of the Old 
Testament, and knowing that it would be 
quite impossible to send out a book on 
the subject of holiness in general, and 
expect one to find in it anything that is 
not found in other books, and in much 
better and more readable style, we have 
ventured to give this little volume a 
chance in the world, to fill any niche the 
others may not have found. 

We kindly ask the prayers of the 
reader for God's blessing on this work. 

W. E. S. 



CONTENTS. 

Chop. Page 

1 . From Egypt to Canaan — Getting Started ... 9 

2. From Egypt to Canaan — Crossing the Red 

Sea 24 

3 . From Egypt to Canaan — D ef eat at Kadesh- 

Barnea 31 

4. From Egypt to Canaan — Crossing the 

Jordan 64 

5. Canaan... 82 

6. The Perfect Surprise Chapter — Gene- 

sis 17 98 

7. The HoiyY OF H01.1ES 118 

8. Soi^omon's TempIvE and Our Body 130 

9. The Holy Anointing Oii< 142 

10. The Nazarite 152 

11. The Year OF JuBii^EE 159 

12. The Edenic Stream 167 

13. Pentecost Requisites.... 174 

14. The Priesthood and Burnt Offering .. 190 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

CHAPTER I. 

FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN — GETTING 
STARTED. 

In treating this subject, which, so clearly 
illustrates Christian experience, we notice 
four very important epochs in the journey 
of the Israelites to the land of Canaan. 

1. Getting started from Egypt. 

2. The deliverance at the Red Sea. 

3. The defeat at Kadesh-Barnea. 

4. The crossing of the river Jordan. 
In all these we find types of human 

experience. '^Now all these things hap- 
pened unto them (the Israelites, in their 
journey) for ensamples (margin, types): 
and they are written for our admonition, 
upon whom the ends of' the world are 
come." / Cor, 10:11. Egypt is a type 
of the world : its bondage illustrates the 
sinner's bondage to sin; Pharaoh symbol- 
izes the devil ; crossing the Red Sea, 

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justification ; and crossing tlie Jordan, 
sanctification. We will notice first tlie 
difi&culties in starting from Egypt. There 
are five things worthy of note in these 
difficulties. The first is Pharaoh's point- 
blank refusal to let them go, and the other 
four are his concessions. When Moses 
and Aaron appeared before Pharaoh ask- 
ing him to let the people go, he flatly 
refused. 

^^And the Lord said unto Moses, Pha- 
raoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to 
let the people go." Exodus 7:14* Of 
course he refused. They were his sub- 
jects. He would not relinquish his claim 
on them, for they were of too much service 
and brought in too much revenue into his 
coffers. Here we find the first difficulty 
in the way of the sinner seeking salva- 
tion. He feels that he needs and wants 
deliverance from the thraldom of sin. 
The devil has been a hard taskmaster. 
Surely he has been in the bondage of the 
devil. 

^'To turn them from darkness to light, 
and from the power of Satan unto God." 
Acts 26:18. *'He that committeth sin is 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY II 

of the devil." i John. j:8. Will the devil 
let his subjects go? Will he quietly sub- 
mit and say, '^All right, if you wish to be 
a Christian, I have no objections "? No. 
He will refuse, like Pharaoh. He will 
bring his infernal machinations to bear 
upon the seeker, to deter or persuade or 
frighten him from his purpose. 

When Pharaoh saw that his refusal 
was unheeded he made a proposition. 

CONCESSION NUMBER ONE. 

^^And Pharaoh called for Moses and 
for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to 
your God zn the land. And Moses said, 
It is not meet so to do; for we shall sac- 
rifice the abomination of the Egyptians to 
the Lord our God: Lo, shall we sacrifice 
the abomination of the Egyptians before 
their eyes, and will they not stone us? 
We will go three days' journey into the 
wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our 
God, as he shall command us." Ex. 
8:25-27. 

Sacrifice in the land. Pharaoh was 
quite a schemer. He wanted to over- 
throw God's plan of deliverance. Egypt- 
ians regarded cattle as sacred. He knew, 



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and so did Moses, that if tlie Israelites sac- 
rificed cattle ^4n the land/' in sight of 
the Egyptians, it would bring forth their 
displeasure and the result would be a 
complete failure in their deliverance. 

How like Satan ! When he sees that 
his refusal is unnoticed and his subjects 
are bound to leave him, he yields a point 
and proposes a compromise. ^'If you 
really mean to be a Christian, all right, 
but remain in the world." How many 
have heeded the compromise and are now 
sacrificing ^^ in the land "! They were 
honest in their desire to be Christians, 
but they failed to get clear away from the 
world. They have joined the church, 
have been baptized, are doing religion, 
but they are still '^in the land." They 
mingle with the world, act like the world, 
talk like the world, and dress like the 
world. They are simply in the world. 
Multitudes of such are deceived, and are 
crowding the broad way to hell. How 
miserable one must be who is trying to 
hold on to Christ with one hand and the 
world with the other ! But these two are 
too far separated to cling to both at once. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 3 

SucIl a one has no real sympathy or help 
from either. They are something like 
the bat. It seems the bat wanted to 
mingle with the mice, but was refused 
because it looked so much like a bird. 
Then it took to the birds, but was likewise 
rejected, seeing it looked so much like a 
mouse. Away with your bat religion. 
Be one thing or the other. 

A certain professor was specially versed 
in entomology. The students decided to 
play a j oke on him . They obtained the body 
of one bug, the head of another, wings of 
another and legs of another, and placing 
them properly together made a fine speci- 
men of a bug. Presenting it to the 
professor they asked him its name. 
After taking a good look at it, he finally 
remarked, 'Well, boys, I think that is a 
humbug." A little religion, no real sal- 
vation, a good deal of the world, some- 
what of the devil, a good sprinkling of 
morality, some sanctimonious piety, well 
placed together, and you have a good type 
of a humbug Christian. Such people 
behold the joy and blessings and service 
of real Christians and wonder why they 



14 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

are not more blessed. They see the Chris- 
tian's growth and wonder w^hy they do 
not grow in grace. They look with long- 
ing eyes as the saint runs up the shining 
way, and are disappointed when they see 
that in their experience they get no- 
where. They are much like the two men 
who crossed a certain river one night just 
above a waterfall. They tied their boat 
to a stump and proceeded to have a good 
time. Late in the night, after getting 
under the influence of liquor, they got 
into their boat to return home. They 
rowed for a long time, but did not gain 
the other shore. They feared to stop 
rowing, as the current might take them 
over the falls below. So they rowed, and 
rowed, and rowed, all the remaining 
night, and when morning dawned, lo, 
and behold, they were still tied to the old 
stump. 

Now, you who are going through the 
motions of religion, without enjoying 
salvation; w^ho have tried to start but got 
nowhere; have joined the church and 
have your name on its roll without join- 
ing the Lord and having your name 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 5 

written in heaven ; who are afraid to cease 
striving, for fear the current will sweep 
you over the falls, do you not see why 
you make no progress ? You are still 
tied to the old stump. You are hooked 
on to the world. You are yet ^^in the 
land." 

Cut the shore line and launch out. 

CONCESSION NUMBER TWO. 

^^And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, 
that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your 
God in the wilderness ; only ye shall not 
go very far away. " Ex. 8:28. What a 
schemer ! He knew if they did not get 
very far away, he would not have very 
far to go after them. And Moses knew, 
if they were not far away, and saw hard 
times and got hungry, they would be so 
close to the leeks and garlic and flesh- 
pots which they had left behind, that 
there would be a strong temptation to 
cross over and have a feast. 

Thus, Satan, when he sees that he can 
not persuade one who desires to be a 
Christian to remain in the world, will 
propose for him to go only a little dis- 
tance away. '' Live on the border land, 



1 6 HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY 

then I shall not have far to go and bring 
you back. Live close to the world, and 
when you do not get enough from above 
to satisfy your longings, just step across 
and go to the theatre or card party or 
social dance, or if that is too worldly get 
up a fourth-class theatre or frolic in your 
church, for you must have some pleasure, 
especially when young, so be border-land 
Christians. " Thus he speaks, and thus 
he succeeds in, alas, too many instances. 
Oh, the sad failure in so many lives by 
hovering around the border line ! Some- 
times in and sometimes out; sometimes 
with a ray of joy and light, and some- 
times in the darkness of Egypt ; one day 
of resolving to do better, the next day 
down in the dumps. 

Too much mixture, brother. Too near 
Egypt. ''Ye cannot serve God and 
mammon. " 

Move away from the border. You are 
subject to too many allurements and too 
near the enemy's quarters. The story 
is told of a certain man who lived on the 
border line between the North and South 
during the war. He was an ''all things to 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 17 

all men'' sort of a make-up, in the wrong 
sense of that term. One day, looking 
down the road, he saw a party of soldiers 
having on them blue j ackets . He thought 
the Union men were coming and would 
ask him on which side he was, so he was 
ready with his answer as they put the 
question. On replying that he was a 
Union man and that his sympathies were 
with the North, they were glad they had 
met a friend, and so helped themselves to 
such as he had. Later, he spied another 
squad of soldiers, but they had on gray 
jackets. When they asked him who he 
was he replied that he was a Confederate, 
and that his sympathies were with the 
South. Being glad to find a friend, they 
likewise helped themselves and passed 
on. 

But imagine his dilemma when, upon 
another occasion, he beheld a company of 
soldiers, some of them wearing blue coats 
and some of them gray. He felt sure 
they would soon ask him what he was. 

He was afraid to say North and dare 
not say South. While he was trying to 
settle on something the question came, 



1 8 HOUNESS TYPOLOGY 

" What are you ?" He hesitated and 
stammered, and finally said, ''To tell the 
truth, I ain't nothing and not much of 
that." 

Now, my border-land friend, the lines 
will be drawn, the question will be 
put. What will you reply ? That you are 
'' nothing and not much of that," or will 
you be all for Christ ? Oh, for an experi- 
ence which will enable its possessor to 
say on all occasions, whether thrust v/ith 
the sinners or Christians, '' I am all for 
Christ ! " 

CONCESSION NUMBER THREE. 

^^And Moses and Aaron were brought 
again unto Pharaoh : and he said unto 
them. Go, serve the Lord your God: but 
who are they that shall go ? And Moses 
said. We will go with our young and with 
our old, with our sons and with our 
daughters, with our flocks and with our 
herds will we go : for we must hold a 
feast unto the Lord. And he said unto 
them. Let the Lord be so with you, as I 
will let you go, and your little ones : look 
to it ; for evil is before you. Not so : go 
now ye that are men, and serve the Lord ; 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 19 

for that ye did desire. And they were 
driven out from Pharaoh's presence." 
Ex. 10:8-11, 

What a proposition ! Leave the chil- 
dren behind. What a tendenc}^ for the 
parents to be drawn back where the 
children were ! 

When Satan cannot thwart God's plan 
with souls on the above propositions, but 
sees they are determined to leave his 
kingdom, his next move is to hold on to 
the children. In too many instances has 
he succeeded. Too many children of 
saved parents are left in Egypt. Parents 
may not always be to blame for this, for 
many have been saved after their children 
had grown up or got out from under their 
immediate control. But the promise is 
for us and our children, and God will not 
hold us guiltless unless we are claiming 
His promise and praying daily for them, 
and doing our best, by holy living and 
godly example and proper persuading, 
to bring them from darkness to light. 
Many parents have seen their children 
grow up in Egypt in their worldly ways 
and pleasures and have allowed them to 



20 HOWNESS TYPOLOGY 

wrap tlie insidious coil of worldliness 
around their own hearts, until they have 
been unconsciously drawn back to the 
same plane on which the children live. 
Now the children do not see enough in 
the lives of their parents to induce them 
to become Christians, and the parents 
wonder why the children are not saved. 
May not the answer be, '^ No inducement 
at home " ? 

Many fathers and mothers before they 
will ever see their children saved will 
have to confess to them that they have 
not lived before them as they should, and 
will have to ask them to forgive their 
unchristian conduct. 

CONCESSION NUMBER FOUR. 

^^And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and 
said, Go ye, serve the Lord ; only let your 
flocks and your herds be stayed : let your 
little ones also go with you. And Moses 
said, Thou must give us also sacrifices, 
and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice 
unto the Lord our God. Our cattle 
also shall go with us ; there shall not 
an hoof be left behind; for thereof must 
we take to serve the Lord our God." 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 21 

Ex. 10:24-26. 

This time they may take their children 
only leave their flocks and herds, or 
in other words, their possessions. Any 
thing to hinder them in their service to 
God. 

Again we see the cloven hoof. If one 
is determined to be a Christian and get 
far away from the world, claiming the 
promise for His children, as a last resort 
he tries to persuade him to leave his 
possessions behind. And, as in the fore- 
going propositions, he frequently succeeds. 

Some people will shout and seemingly 
rejoice in revival meetings ; will praise 
the Lord with happy hallelujahs, and 
sing, '' I'm glad salvation's free," and it 
seems to be with them, for you may 
approach them anywhere, and bring a 
glad response, but put your finger on 
their purse and they draw in and shrink 
up like a sea anemone when touched. 
Why is the church so hindered in its 
finances ? Why is there such a tendency 
to suppers, frolics and entertainments ; 
people running after the supper room 
instead of the '^upper room" ? 



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For two reasons, viz.: they have not 
enongh salvation to satisfy their longings, 
so they go to the world, or rather bring 
the world to them for it. The other is, 
the church members have left their 
possessions in Egypt, and the church has 
not the necessary means to run expenses, 
so they act as if God was bankrupt and 
they had to go to the devil for his 
assistance. Shame that the church can- 
not be run without running into the 
ground (world). Millions of heathen 
are groping on in superstition and dark- 
ness; many missionaries are waiting in 
vain to carry them the glad news; 
multitudes of small-salaried preachers are 
going without their meager stipulations ; 
numbers of churches are now defunct. 
Why? Principally because professed 
Christians have left their ''flocks and 
herds behind." It seems to be the devil's 
last hold on a sinner. The proper way 
is to recognize God's ownership of all our 
silver and gold, and then see to it that 
He gets systematically at least one-tenth. 
''Will a man rob God?" Of course he 
will, and multitudes are doing it right 



HOLINEvSS TYPOLOGY 23 

along, and as a resnlt many precious 
souls are being robbed of the light and 
salvation that would come to them. A 
great deal depends on the start in the 
Christian race. Get a good start from 
Egypt. Not in the land, not hovering 
around the border line, not without claim- 
ing the promise for the children and not 
without our possessions. '^There shall 
not an hoof be left behind." 
This is the way to start. 



CHAPTER II. 

FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN — CROSSING THE 
RED SEA. 

The children of Israel were determined 
to leave Egypt, and leave they did. Six 
hundred three thousand, five hundred 
fifty, ^'from twenty years old and up- 
ward," besides the women and children, 
take up their march from Egyptian serf- 
dom. The deliverance at the Red Sea 
clearly represents the sinner's deliverance 
from his sins. ^^They were thrust out 
of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither 
had they prepared for themselves any 
victual." Ex, I2:jg. Every sinner 
should hurry away from sin, for he may 
drop into hell any minute. No prepa- 
ration is necessary, he cannot make 
himself better by tarrying. 

' * If you tarry till you 're better, 
You will never come at all. " 

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The Lord did not lead them througli by 
way of tlie Philistines lest they shonld 
see war and get discouraged and go back. 
He knows just how to lead the sinner. 
He does not let too much hardship come 
at once or let the light on too fast, lest 
he should be disheartened and turn back. 
The pillar of cloud by day and of fire by 
night went before and was their guide. 
The Lord always goes before and guides 
the footsteps of the sinner. Enough 
light w^ill always be shed on his way to 
lead him through. The wise men 
followed the star, the light from the East, 
and it lead them to the very spot where 
Christ was. 

When they got to the Red Sea they 
were in a great dilemma, or rather 
trilemma. They looked back and saw 
the Egyptians following them; they 
looked forward and the Red Sea was in 
front ; they looked around and behold the 
mountains. 

If there was ever a time when the 
sinner saw the magnitude of his sins and 
realized them pressing in hard upon him 
and no way out, it was when he strove to 



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forsake them. When they saw the 
Egyptians they were sore afraid. Oh, 
that sin would alarm the sinner likewise ! 
And they cried unto the Lord. A very 
good thing to do. The best thing a 
sinner can do is to cry unto the Lord for 
deliverance. But they nearly got dis- 
couraged and thought it better if they 
had not started from Egypt. 

How many times have we seen tfie 
sinner almost get discouraged and feel 
like giving up just before victory came! 

The heartless wail, ^'IVe tried once 
and didn't get through," has been repeated 
by thousands. 

Moses now told them to^ 'stand still and 
see the salvation of God." There comes 
a time to stand still, quit struggling, and 
see what God will do. 

A man fell overboard and struggled for 
life. A stalwart sailor stood by and 
seemed ready to jump in and help him 
out, but let the drowning man sink and 
rise and then sink again and rise; and as 
he sank the third time, in jumped the 
sailor and rescued him. Those looking 
on wondered why the sailor did not rescue 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 27 

him at first, and his reply was that he 
had to wait until he ceased struggling, 
otherwise he would have drowned them 
both. 

Sinner, stop your struggling and let 
Christ save you. 

^^The Egyptians whom ye have seen 
to-day, ye shall see them again no more 
forever." Comforting words ! ''And their 
sins and iniquities will I remember no 
more." Heb. io:iy. ''I, even I, am he 
that blotteth out thy transgressions for 
mine own sake, and will not remember 
thy sins.' ' Isa. 4J : ^5. 

The next announcement was that the 
Lord would fight for them and they 
should hold their peace. Surely no man 
can save himself — the battle is the Lord's 
and Christ is our Captain. He will do the 
sa\H^ng. 

''Speak unto the children of Israel that 
they go forward." But how can they go 
forward ? Does it not mean death to 
venture into the Red Sea ? While there 
comes a time for the sinner to stand still, 
there follows also the command to go 
forward. It seems impossible, for doubt 



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and fears loom up ahead to hedge up the 
way. 

" But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch 
out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : 
and the children of Israel shall go on dry 
ground through the midst of the sea." 

So God would say to the poor soul who 
sees only darkness and doubt ahead : 

''Lift thou up thy hand of faith and 
stretch it out over the sea of difficulties 
and take hold of the promise, and the 
obstacles will roll away and you will see 
your way clear to pass through." 

Christ will surely divide the sea and 
make a way through. 

"And the angel of God, which went 
before the camp of Israel, removed and 
went behind them." The angel of God 
and a pillar of cloud stood between the 
Israelites and Egyptians long enough to 
give the Israelites a chance to venture out 
by faith and get the victory. 

So God gets in between the sinner and 
his sins so he can step out by faith and 
get deliverance. 

Notice this peculiar fact, that it was 
dark night just before they crossed 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 29 

through to the other side. The old adage 
says, ^^It is darkest just before day." 

The darkest time for the seeking 
sinner is just before the daylight of God's 
salvation breaks in upon him. 

God caused the sea to separate and the 
children of Israel passed through to the 
other side. But the Egyptians marched 
on after them, right into the sea. Moses 
again stretched out his hand and ''the 
Lord overthrew them in the midst of the 
sea." How beautiful the type! ''He 
will subdue our iniquities ; and thou 
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of 
the sea." Micah 7:19- God buries 
them beneath the waves. With the 
Egyptians it reads, "there remained not 
so much as one of them." When God 
blots out one's sins He does not leave one, 
all have to go down. Glory to God ! 

"Thus the Lord saved Israel that day 
out of the hand of the Egyptians." 
Thus the Lord saves his people from 
their sins. "And thou shalt call his 
name Jesus (Savior): for he shall save 
his people from their sins." Matt, i :2i. 

"And Israel saw the Egyptians dead 



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Upon the sea shore.'' Separated from 
them, could not harm them any more. 
Separated from sins — deliverance at last, 
dead. 

^^And Israel saw that great work which 
the Lord did upon the Egyptians." Yes, 
and when the Lord saved us from our 
sins we saw it, and as they '^ feared the 
Lord and believed the Lord and His 
servant Moses," so we for the first time 
feared the Lord, and oh, how we believed 
Him and clung to Him and His servant 
that led us to Him. 

When they got across the sea and 
found they were indeed delivered they 
sang and shouted and had a real 
hallelujah time. So when the Lord 
delivered us from our sins and took our 
feet from the miry clay and set us on a 
rock, He put a new song in our mouths 
and we shouted His praises and glorified 
the Lord. 

Reader, have you crossed the Red 
Sea? 



CHAPTER III. 

FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN — DEFEAT AT 
KADESH-BARNEA. 

Some fourteen montlis from their 
deliverance at tlie Red Sea finds tlie 
Israelitish. host at Canaan's border. They 
camp at Kadesh-Barnea. This marks 
another epoch in their history. God's 
design was to lead them from this point 
into Canaan. They had received the law 
and other lessons and should have moved 
right into the land. 

Their sad failure here shadows forth 
the fatal results which have come to 
many Christians when the light concern- 
ing holiness comes to them. 

Kadesh means holy. God had led 
them up to this holy spot and from there 
they might look over into the promised 
land. Sooner or later God will lead the 
convert to Kadesh. He will gently lead 

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32 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

him to that holy place from whence he 
can look over and see the glorious 
experience of sanctification. 

God never intended the convert to 
wander around from year to year before 
receiving perfect love, but, like the 
Israelites, when he has received the law 
and is properly instructed he should at 
once press into holiness. 

Twelve spies were sent over to spy out 
the land. Their names were Caleb, 
Joshua, and — who were the others ? 
Who can remember them ? The Sunday- 
school scholar remembers the two above 
mentioned, but what theologian can recall 
the others? 

And yet their names are all recorded 
in holy writ. These ten brought back 
an evil report of the land. They vv^ere all 
leaders, occupying high positions, and the 
evil report coming from such a source 
caused an epidemic of fear and doubt in 
camp and resulted in the disaster which 
followed. How many leaders in the 
ministry and other Christian work have 
given an evil report of holiness and thus 
hindered multitudes of God's children 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 33 

from entering into rest ! And these 
ministers, what are their names ? We 
read of Wesley, Fletcher, Bramwell, and 
might write of scores from their day 
down to the present, whose names, like 
Caleb and Joshua, are in the mouths of 
thousands and whose sacred memories 
linger in our minds, but those evil-report 
men, have they blessed the land ? have 
they helped the church ? do their names 
hang upon our lips ? Who are they ? . 
Echo answers, ^' Who?" We forget their 
names. Blessed oblivion ! The land and 
its products were favorably reported to 
the camp, but it was the giants and walled 
cities w^hich caused them to speak un- 
favorably. Holiness is all right, of 
course. Who would object to its precious 
fruit? But these evil reporters see the 
giant obstacles and are scared out and 
thus fail to enter in and deter many 
others. Oh, for more men and women 
with backbone and bravery and grace and 
grit, like Caleb and Joshua, who can say, 
'%et us go up at once, and possess it; for 
we are well able to overcome it "! Num. 



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Giants and walled cities. ^^Neverthe- 
less, the people be strong that dwell in 
the land, and the cities are walled, and 
very great: and moreover we saw the 
children of Anak there." ''AH the people 
that we saw in it are men of a great 
stature. And there we saw the giants, 
the sons of Anak, which come of the 
giants : and we were in our own sight as 
grasshoppers, and so we were in their 
sight." Num. ij :28^ j^, jj. 

Thousands of people to-day would go 
over and possess the goodly land of 
full salvation were it not for the giants 
which show their grim visages, and 
the walled cities reaching to the skies 
and exhibiting apparently impregnable 
barriers against victory. 

Why are there not more people sancti- 
fied? What are the giants and walled 
cities which stand in the way ? Perhaps 
the mention of a few might help the fear- 
ful. The leading family of giants to- 
day is called Fear. There are several 
brothers of them. Each has his in- 
fluence. 

I. Future Fear. This seems to be 



HOIvINESS TYPOLOGY 35 

the chief giant of the country. A direct 
descendant of Mr. Anak. He scares more 
people than any of his countrymen. 
Fear of the future. Fear of losing the 
experience. They would be so glad to 
get the blessing, but they are so afraid 
they will not hold out. As if the 
promise could not hold them up, or 
God's everlasting arm was insufficient. 

We have heard the story related of a 
man unaccustomed to the ice, crossing 
the frozen river. He was so afraid the 
ice would break through that he got 
down and began to crawl. Looking up 
he saw a team coming along drawing 
a load of pig iron. Encouraged and 
comforted he arose and walked, knowing 
if the ice could sustain that weight it 
could surely hold him. Christ is able to 
hold us up. Paul said he was persuaded 
that Christ was able to keep that which 
was committed unto Him against that 
day. 2 Tim. 1:12. 

Jude said He was able to keep us from 
falling. Jude 24. 

2. Influence Fear. Some are afraid to 
profess holiness for fear they will fail in 



36 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

some way, and so exert a bad influence 
on others. What is the influence as it 
is? Would not more grace result in a 
better influence ? Those who hesitate on 
such an excuse are generally the very ones 
who are careful in their life, and when 
they do profess holiness see to it that 
they live it. It is the thoughtless, care- 
less, helter-skelter people who never 
think of other people, who have a bad 
influence sometimes. It does not make 
much difference to the devil which scare- 
crow scares, so it keeps the believer out 
of Canaan. 

3. Failure Fear. '^I know I must 
obtain it by faith, but I am afraid that 
when I believe, I will find out that I did 
not receive it." Reader, did you ever 
think or say that ? Is not God as faith- 
ful as you ? Has he not promised to 
accept and sanctify the gift which is 
handed over to Him ? Will He fail to 
do His part when you have faithfully 
yielded all to Him and then stepped out 
by faith, trusting Him for a pure heart ? 
Never. ^'Faithful is he that calleth you, 
who also will do it." / Tkess. 5 .• 24, 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 37 

Wouldn't it be awful to say to Christ, 
^' I liave given up everything to Thee ; 
all I know and all I don't know. Thou 
has promised to accept me and sanctify 
me, but I do not believe Thou art faithful 
in doing it"? What does the Scripture 
say? ''He that believeth not God hath 
made him a liar." Be careful that in 
your unbelief you do not make God a 
liar. 

4. Popular Fear, ''What will the 
people say ? " If it was only more 
popular some people would accept it more 
quickly. If there were only more of the 
"better class," there would be more 
inducement to some. It is the same old 
story — "Have any of the rulers or of the 
Pharisees believed on him?" Jno. 7 :48, 
It is easy enough to go with the popular 
tide, but to stem it and even go alone is 
quite another thing. The fear of the 
people has kept many from Canaan. 
Pastors sometimes fear the people. If it 
was only popular they would go in for it, 
but their " bread and butter " is at stake 
if they preach holiness contrary to the 
opinions of the people. It is good to 



38 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

" suffer tlie loss of all things " for 
Christ's sake, and then one is not going 
to worry over the opinions of people or 
bread and butter or anything else, for he 
has already lost all. 

5. Obligation Fear. This descendant 
of Anak looms up in the distance and 
speaks in thunder tones : '^You can't 
meet the requirements ; you can't live up 
to it ; it is all you can do to keep 
justified." What a hobgoblin he is ! 
And many a poor yearning heart fails at 
the apparent multiplied obligations and 
responsibilities of the sanctified life and 
settles down in discouragement. ^^ It is 
all I can do to keep justified." But do 
you keep justified all the time? The 
fact is, it takes the experience of sanctifi- 
cation to enable the believer to keep 
converted. Some people seem to think 
that sanctification would be a big white 
elephant on their hands. And further- 
more it is so big that it might get away, 
and the bigger it is the harder it is to hold. 
Brother, it is just the opposite. You do 
not have to hold on like grim death for 
fear it will get away ; submit to Christ 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 39 

and He will come into your heart and life 
and hold you and keep you. Can you 
serve God with a little grace better 
than more grace? Can the great ocean 
steamer make better progress and plow 
through storm and billows better with a 
low head of steam than a full head ? Can 
a business man do more business with a 
small capital than with a large one ? Can 
the soldier travel as fast and fight as well 
on half rations as full rations ? A full 
salvation is necessary to properly equip 
us for Christian service and holy living. 
And, really, there are no new obligations 
necessarily placed on one who gets 
sanctified more than on one who is not. 
God does not have one code of laws for 
the sanctified and another for those not 
fully cleansed. His commands are for 
all. Holiness is obligatory. The pre- 
cepts are just as binding to the offcast 
who wallows in the gutter as the holiest 
man who walks the earth. For one to 
say, ^' I do not profess holiness, therefore 
I can do so and so," is no better than for 
a sinner to say that, because he does not 
profess religion he is licensed to do as 



40 HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY 

he pleases. Every one is required to do 
right and live right and obey God. 
What sin, either by omission or com- 
mission, will the Lord graciously allow 
you to commit that He will not allow the 
sanctified? '^ He that committeth sin is 
of the devil." iJno.j:8. Reader, will 
you allow any one of this Fear family to 
keep you out of Canaan? Fear and 
unbelief kept the Israelitish host from 
the Canaan rest ; will you permit them to 
hinder you? Did you know that the 
'^ fearful and unbelieving " head the vast 
procession going down to hell ? Rev. 21:8. 
Beware of this awful sin. You may 
conquer if you will. There are other 
giants in the land outside the family of 
^'Fear.'' Some of these are: 

6. Giant Contradiction. This dark 
monster menaces the believer and is con- 
tinually pointing out Scriptural dis- 
crepancies, and proving from the Word 
that no one can live holy in this life. 
He looks big, but he is a spook. He 
vanishes when searched out. He shows 
you chapter and verse (sometimes, but 
more frequently it is home-spun ) where 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 41 

^^ There is none righteous, no not one," 
**If we say we have no sin we deceive 
ourselves," ^' There is none that doeth 
good," etc., taking the Scripture out of 
the context and thus changing the sense 
intended by inspiration and quoting 
verses pertaining to the sinner and not 
to the Christian. 

By thus wresting the Scriptures, 
taking part of a text or an isolated one, 
almost anything may be proved. One 
might thus prove that it is right to steal, 
for the Bible says, ^^Let him that stole, 
steal. " But when we add the rest of the 
words ^'no more " to it, another meaning 
is given. One may prove that there is 
no God ; for these words do occur in the 
Bible : ''there is no God." But the whole 
sentence reads : ''The fool hath said in 
his heart, There is no God." And 
nobody but a fool would say such a thing. 

We heard of a preacher delivering a 
sermon against pride, and he took these 
words for a text: "Top not come 
down." He had evidently not studied 
the whole text, "Let him that is on the 
house-top not come down." All the 



42 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

Scripture that can be brought to bear 
against the doctrine of holiness is only 
apparently contradictory, and much of it 
used by opposers is hardly that. Where 
there is one even apparent contradiction 
there are scores which are as clear as 
noonday in favor of it. Faithful jurors 
in court take the preponderance of 
evidence and then make their decision 
accordingly. 

The Bible evidence is overwhelmingly 
in favor of holiness. There is not one 
text in the Bible rightly understood 
which stands out against it. 

Reader, if you are hindered by this 
giant, take a good Bible promise and 
place it in your sling, take a good aim 
and see if you cannot slay him. 

7. Giant Hypocrite. This giant does 
not say very much. About all he says 
is: ^'See there." He does a good deal of 
looking and much pointing. He is always 
pointing out to the believer some defect, 
some fault or sin of some one professing 
holiness, and saying: '^ See, there is one of 
your holiness people." So the seeker 
of perfect love is confronted with the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 43 

inconsistent lives of some professors and 
trembles at the thought of making such a 
profession. The sinner makes the same 
excuse and cries, '^Hypocrites!" But do 
we say, ''All right, that is a suf&cient ex- 
cuse for you, the Lord will let you off"? 
No. It is true some talk louder than 
they live. As some one writes: " You can- 
not always tell the size of the egg from 
the size of the cackle." 

We have heard of a steamer that took 
all the steam to blow the whistle. But 
this does not prove that every big cackle 
does not mean a good-sized egg, or every 
steamer that whistles is all whistle. 

We ought to live up to our profession 
and we ought to profess all the grace God 
has given us. "That the communication 
of thy faith may become effectual by the 
acknowledging of every good thing which 
is in you in Christ Jesus." Philem. 6. 
Every good thing. Holiness is a good 
thing. Then acknowledge it. There are 
some professing purity, who make great 
blunders, but perhaps they are ignorant. 

One person's light is not necessarily 
another's light. One is responsible only 



44 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

according to the measure of his light. 

We have more light to walk in now 
than in our earlier Christian experience. 

Some things, perhaps, we did then 
innocently, which to-day, on account of 
additional light, would be sin and would 
bring condemnation and darkness. We 
should have charity for others who per- 
haps have not had the light or training 
that we have. 

There are but few people of our 
acquaintance who profess holiness but 
what do some things we could not con- 
sistently do. And very likely we do 
things that they would not. 

We should correct our fault if we 
discover it and we should have charity for 
those who may not see exactly as we do. 
People generally find what they are seek- 
ing for. If it is faults and failures, they 
can find that, or if it is holiness, that may 
be found in other people or for one's self. 

Then there are some walled cities which 
loom up in the distance, which look very 
impregnable to the believer. 

They are so large and so high and have 
such thick walls. How can they be 
overcome ? 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 45 

I. The City of Confession. This 
appears, to some, immense. Its walls 
reach, to the skies. And a certain 
peculiarity about it is that it always 
seems to magnify as the believer looks 
at it. And with some it increases to that 
magnitude that it fills the horizon and 
shuts out all the light and only itself can 
be seen. 

How hard it is for some to walk right 
up to this formidable barrier and compass 
it about and shout its walls down ! Yes, 
there is a better way than that. Hear 
the words of Joshua and Caleb : '^Neither 
fear ye the people of the land ; for they 
are bread for us.'' Num. 14 : p. Go 
right up to this walled city and swallow it 
whole. Make a meal on it. Get it in 
your mouth in some way. It may seem 
a big bite and bitter, perhaps, but it will 
get sweeter and sweeter. The children 
of Israel were afraid to venture into the 
land for fear the people would eat them 
up. Nu7n. 13:32. Joshua and Caleb were 
anxious to move forward into that country 
and make bread of them. Oh, brother, 
do not let these obstacles swallow you, but 



46 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

you swallow them. Be willing to confess 
the experience. It is giving God the 
glory and not boasting in yourself. We 
testify to it so that others may get 
hungry for the same. If we should keep 
it all to ourselves, how selfish that would 
be, and some poor starving soul might 
miss the blessing. Let us do unto others 
as we would have them do to us. If no 
one had told you about it, would you be 
seeking it or enjoying it? Then turn 
and help some one else. I have known a 
number who came right up to the point 
of confessing the blessing and they 
backed out. The smile of victory 
would be on their faces, and they 
would rise to tell the glad news, but 
the big word which expresses the 
blessing came before them and they 
hesitated, and toned down and did not 
come out plain. 

I thought they were going right 
through, but they failed, and sat down 
with the radiance gone and became 
succumbers instead of overcomers. ^'And 
they overcame him (the devil) by the 
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 47 

their testimony." Rev. 12 : 11. Get the 
blood applied and then tell it out in a 
way to be an overcomer. Press right 
through every difficulty and come out on 
the victor's side. A friend was telling 
me of a certain field of grain, owned by 
his father, into which one of the hogs 
used to go and feed. On being watched 
by the hired man, it was found that the 
hog gained entrance to the field under 
the fence through a hollow log. 

The log happened to be curved some- 
what, so one day the man turned it so 
that both ends were on the same side of 
the fence. He then watched for the hog 
to make his appearance, which he did. 
He went to the end of the log as usual to 
pass through into the field and when he 
came out, to his great surprise and 
disappointment he found he was on the 
same side of the fence he went in at. He 
tried it again, but with the same failure. 
And thus many believers start, and one 
would think they were going right 
through with a clear-cut testimony, but 
lo, the devil manages to turn the log, 
and they come out on the same side they 



48 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

were before. Why will Christians be 
afraid or ashamed of God's words ? He 
says if we are, He will be ashamed of us. 
Another walled city is discovered by some 
who look over into the land. It is called : 

2. The City of Prejudice. It keeps 
many from entering into rest. It is quite 
an extensive city, having several im- 
portant additions. The northern annex 
consists of cold indifference ; the southern 
addition is hot-headedness ; the eastern, 
unscriptural teaching and education, and 
the western is ignorance. This great 
city spreads its dark wings and holds 
many a poor soul in the distance. 

Prejudice. A great obstacle! It is 
brought about in different ways. If it 
were not for the wrong training of some 
they would have been sanctified long ago. 
Some have been taught that only at death 
can one be purified; others that it is 
brought about by the gradual processes of 
growth; and still others that all is 
received at regeneration. When the 
plain scriptural plan of instantaneous 
sanctification by faith is presented, it 
frequently arouses opposition and thus 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 49 

their prejudice keeps them from the 
blessing. Some are prejudiced through 
their coldness and inactivity, others 
through their ignorance and others 
through their hot-headed, and high- 
headed, and big-headed stubbornness. 
Why not lay down all this prejudice and 
take God's Word as the man of our 
counsel and let that decide for our course 
of action ? 

3. The City of Wrong Impressions. 
This is a spook town, for there is nothing 
to it. It is simply an apparition, but it 
scares multitudes. It looks like an 
extremely formidable city. Its great 
walls are covered with turrets. They 
loom up in the distance and terrify the 
people fearfully. Each turret has its 
name. We shall mention only a few of 
them, for their name is legion. 

Will the reader look carefully and see 
which one stands the most in his way ? 

The wrong impressions concerning the 
teaching and experience of holiness are 
much used by Satan in hindering the 
work of full salvation. 

(a) ^'^ They claim absolute perfection.^ ^ 



50 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

We have never known any one who 
claimed sucli perfection. This belongs 
only to God. Christian perfection, which 
means perfect love, may be enjoyed here 
and now, but never absolute perfection. 

(b) '' They claim to be so holy they 
can V sin, ' ' Another mistaken idea. We 
have heard many advocates of holiness 
preach and testify, but never one have we 
heard claim such a state in which he 
could not sin. 

The Word teaches us that we need not 
sin and that Jesus came to save his 
people yr6>;;^ their sins. Matt, i : 21. 

In I Jno. J : 6 are these words : ^^Who- 
soever abideth in him sinneth not." 
Also, — ^' He that committeth sin is of the 
devil.'' I Jno. j : 8. Again, ^'Whosoever 
is born of God doth not commit sin." 
I Jno. 3 : g. 

We never get where it is impossible to 
sin, for that would relieve us of our free 
agency and make us mere machines. 

The Bible clearly teaches us that in order 
to be justified we must forsake all sin, 
and nowhere does it, after that, give the 
believer a license to go back into the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 5 1 

business. But if one should be drawn 
astray and commit an isolated act of sin, 
thank God '' we have an advocate with 
the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." 
I Jno, 2 : 1. 

Repentance puts a stop to sinning, but 
the trouble is, when one is converted 
there remains the old root of sin, known 
as the carnal mind, in the heart, and this 
frequently rises in unholy emotions and 
causes the believer much trouble to keep 
it in subjection. When one gets sancti- 
fied, this inbred sin is destroyed (^Ro?n, 
6:6) and then the warfare is all on the 
outside, and this enables one to live a 
Christian life more easily. But to think 
that one can sin every day in word, 
thought, and deed, and yet be a Christian, 
is a deception of the devil. He could not 
do worse than that himself. A sinning 
Christian! What a misnomer, what a 
contradiction! One might as well talk 
about an honest thief, a truthful liar, a 
healthy invalid, a living corpse, or a holy 
devil. How much more blessed to have 
Christ enthroned in the heart, cleansing 
it from all sin, and in His own way 



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governing our lives, controlling our 
thoughts and directing our steps, that we 
may live from day to day free from con- 
demnation and enjoying the approbation 
of God! 

(c) ^^Tkey claim they are never tempt- 
ed.^^ We have never heard such teaching. 
On the contrary, many temptations are 
incident to the sanctified life. Christ 
Himself was tempted, yes, tempted ^' in all 
points like as we are, yet without sin." 
We will never be above the Lord. But it 
is one thing to be tempted and quite 
another thing to yield to the temptation. 
It is no sin to be tempted, but the sin 
comes in yielding to it. The more grace 
one gets in his heart, the more he be- 
comes like Christ; and the probabilities are, 
the more he will be tempted. So, instead 
of the sanctified being free from tempta- 
tions, they have increased temptations. 
The reason is clear. They are more cal- 
culated to do Satan's kingdom damage ; 
hence, the more Satan will aim his 
big guns at them, and the more he will lay 
snares to catch them and cause them to fail. 
Perhaps one is saying, ^' If it is true that 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 53 

the sanctified have more temptations than 
others who are not, then I do not want 
that experience, for I have all I can stand 
now." Bnt you forget that God gives 
more grace. His grace is sufficient and 
He has promised to point out a way of 
escape. I would much rather have a 
great deal of temptation with a great deal 
of grace in my soul to withstand it, than 
less temptation and less grace. 

( d ) '^ They claim that they have reached 
the top and that they canH grow any more^ 
It seems strange that one should get 
such an impression. The truth is that 
holiness puts one in a state where he can 
grow in grace better than ever before. 
The reason is obvious. It removes the 
obstructions to growth. It gets all the 
weeds out of the soul and waters it with 
the showers from heaven, and upon it 
shines the ''Sun of Righteousness with 
healing in his wings." Just fitted to '' grow 
up as calves of the stall." Frequently 
there is little growth before heart-purity. 
Sometimes the growth is the other way. 
They grow cold or grow small. As some 
one has said: ''Some Christians are like 



54 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

tlie bumblebee, biggest wben first born." 
If one will search tbe Scriptures upon the 
subject of growth, he will find that the 
growing in grace comes in after sanctifi- 
cation. 

Not that it is impossible to grow before, 
but as a rule there is not much growth 
till after purity. Look at the mass of 
Christians who are not yet fully cleansed. 
Some of them have not as clear an 
evidence now as when first they were 
saved ; not so much victory over sin as 
in their earlier experience. And yet 
some think they can grow into sanctifi- 
cation. How long would it take them at 
the present rate to reach it? We can 
grow in grace, but not into it. The tree 
will grow when planted in the orchard, 
but who ever heard of a tree growing into 
an orchard? One may swim when he 
gets into the sea, but who thinks that he 
could swim into the sea? Get into the 
ocean of God's full salvation and then 
grow. 

(e ) ^' They thi7ik themselves better and 
look down upon other people!'^ But Paul, 
writing of perfect love, in the thirteenth 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 55 

cliapter of First Corintliians, says that 
it ^' is not puffed up, doth not behave 
itself unseemly," True holiness is 
humble. It does not say, ^'I am better 
than thou," but it may say, '' I am better 
than I used to be." 

(f) ''^ Their testimonies are so full of 
boasting!'^ David said, '^My soul shall 
make her boast in the Lord." Psa, 34:2. 
He then added: ^'The humble shall hear 
thereof, and be glad." If one boast in the 
Lord, simply telling what the Lord has 
done for him, it magnifies and pleases 
Him, and if any body around is humble he 
will rejoice over it; but if he who hears 
such is not humble, he will probably get 
disgruntled, and go off mad and say, 
^' Those people are all the time boasting 
about themselves." No, not about them- 
selves, but about the Lord. Surely, it is 
not good to boast of one's self. And one 
should be careful in testifying to full 
salvation to always put ^ 'Jesus" first; as, 
''Jesus keeps me," or "Jesus sanctifies 
me," or " Christ purifies my heart." The 
testimony, " I am sanctified," may give 
the opposer a better chance to find fault, 



56 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

even thougli sucli a testimony be true. 

(g) ^^They have no need of the Lordh 
prayer?^ Another wrong impression. No 
one is fit to pray that prayer until he is 
sanctified or seeking for the whole will of 
God to be accomplished in him. ^'Thy will 
be done." How much of God's will — a 
part, or all of it? '^This is the will of 
God, even your sanctification." / Thess. 
4 : J, Be careful how you pray that 
prayer if you are not in sympathy with 
holiness. 

(h) ^^It is a modern doc trine. ^^ Strange 
statement, that ! It is as old as our 
grandparents ; for do we not hear them 
tell of the good old times in their child- 
hood when people preached holiness ? It 
is as old as Wesley would be had he lived 
till now, for he preached it. It is as old 
as the apostles would be had they lived 
till now, for they preached it and wrote 
it. Go back still farther. It dates back 
as far as Adam, for he was made in the 
very image of God, and surely that is 
holiness. Yes, holiness antedates our 
grandparents, Wesley, the apostles, Adam, 
and even this old world, hoary with the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 57 

years of time. Hear the word of the 
Lord: '^According as lie hathcliosen us 
in him before THE Foundation of the 
WORLD, that we should be holy and with- 
out blame before him in love." Eph. 
I : 4, No, it is not a new doctrine, only 
a new experience to some of us. 

(i) ^^It breaks up the churches!'^ If 
Scriptural holiness would break up a 
church the sooner it is broken up the 
better. Real sanctification makes people 
one. ''Sanctify them through thy truth 
% ^ -^ that they all may be one." Jno. 
ly : ij^2i. '' For both he that sanctifieth 
and they who are sanctified are all of 
one." Heb, 2:11. Does that look much 
like breaking up a church ? It looks to 
me like building up the church and 
making it what it ought to be. Jesus 
further said in that prayer in the seven- 
teenth of John, that the object of this 
sanctification and oneness was, ''that the 
world may believe that thou hast sent 
me." 

When the church wheels into line in 
regard to this doctrine, sinners will be 
inquiring the way of salvation. If holiness 



58 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

ever disrupts a churcli, it is because that 
church opposes it, which means opposition 
to God, and then appears ^'Ichabod" upon 
her banners. 

There are some churches which would 
be broken up, so to speak, if real re- 
pentance should be faithfully preached 
there. But would that be the fault of 
repentance? Holiness does make a stir 
in some places, but it is because it ferrets 
out sin. The real Christians (the 
humble ) shall hear the glad news and be 
glad. The converts will accept it and 
rejoice, but the '' perverts" will get mad 
and say, ^^ It is breaking up the churches.'' 

(j) ^^They lower the standard of re- 
generation^ Let us put that to the 
practical test. Who is it that is sweeping 
the superficial milk-and-water converts 
into the church without a change of 
heart, the pastor and evangelist who 
preach the doctrine of holiness, or those 
who oppose it and sneer at it ? We find 
many who have come in without regener- 
ation, but under whose labors were they ? 
As a rule, the pastor who sneers at 
holiness brings neither superficial nor any 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 59 

otlier kind of converts into tlie churcli. 
People may say wliat they will, but those 
who enjoy perfect love and have the 
clearest conceptions of sanctification have 
also the clearest conceptions of regener- 
ation. If it had not been for the faithful 
and clear teaching in a holiness revival 
meeting, the writer of these pages might 
have still been plodding on, a member of 
the church and still in his sins ; but when 
the standard of regeneration was properly 
set forth, he found he was not in that 
state, although he had been seeking for 
sanctification. He at once sought the 
pardoning grace of God and after that 
entered into the experience of sanctifi- 
cation. 

We fear the people are apt to make a 
mistake here. One should be very care- 
ful to know that he is justified up to date 
before he attempts to obtain heart purity. 
A profession of sanctification on top of 
a backslidden experience or spurious 
conversion may result disastrously to the 
soul. There is no better v/ay to find out 
one's spiritual state than to attend one of 
these holiness meetings where they are 



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accused of ^'lowering the standard of 
regeneration.^' 

These wrong impressions are a subtle 
foe, keeping many a hungry heart from 
the table of full salvation. Ask God for 
light, seek it in His word and at the 
throne of grace, and surely it will come. 
Do not shut your eyes or close your heart 
to the great truth of holiness. Let it not 
be said of you as of Jerusalem, ''If thou 
hadst known, even thou, at least in this 
thy day, the things which belong unto 
thy peace ! but now they are hid from 
thine eyes." Luke ig : 42. 

What became of the Israelites when 
they failed to go in and possess the land 
from Kadesh-Barnea ? 

Well may we ask that question! Shall 
we say that they remained at that sacred 
spot and spent their remaining days in 
sight of the promised land ? Nay, verily. 
They turned their backs on that goodly 
land and wandered in an opposite 
direction. What becomes of the Christians 
who get light on holiness, who stand at 
Kadesh-Barnea in their experience, and 
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claims and calling tliem to step out and 
possess the goodly land ? Will they re- 
main in their justified relation before God 
and stand continually in full view of 
holiness ? Impossible. Will God justify 
sin ? Can one get light on anything and 
know God is calling him and refuse His 
call and reject that light and still retain 
His favor and remain justified? No. 
He who fails to walk in the light and 
obey God, forfeits his justification. And 
many have done it. They have felt it 
their duty to get sanctified, but the giants 
and walled cities have frightened and 
hindered them, and they have failed and 
have drifted into dead formality and a 
backslidden state. 

We once heard a Bishop of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church say, that, any one 
who received light on this glorious 
experience and failed to walk in it would 
forfeit his justification and stand as a 
condemned sinner in the sight of God. 

While conducting revival meetings in 
Nevada City, Cal., a brother arose and 
stated, that, once in his life, while he was 
a Christian, he came right up to the door 



62 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

of this experience of sanctification, and 
was about to step into the blessing, but 
he failed and backed out, and went into 
darkness and remained so for ten years. 

Another brother, in Pasadena, said, 
when he lived in Scotland, two evangelists 
came to his town, where there was a small 
church of which he was a member. They 
presented the doctrine of holiness and 
about half the membership accepted it 
and got the blessing. The other part, 
which included himself, rejected it, and 
they all backslid, while the others retained 
the favor of God and kept saved. This 
same brother came to the altar during 
our meeting and was soundly re- 
claimed and very soon sought the 
experience of holiness, stating that he 
wanted to hurry up and not lose his 
justification again. 

The children of Israel wandered for 
long, weary years in the wilderness as a 
result of their disobedience to God. After 
a while we find them far from the 
promised land in places which seem 
s}:rikingly typical of experience to-day. 

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Zalmonali, whicli means '' shady," and 
then following that they came to Pnnon, 
and that means ''darkness." What 
an illustration of the life of many who 
have rejected holiness ! All over the 
land can be found people, and even 
preachers, too, who once had a Christian 
experience. They came to Kadesh but 
failed to enter Canaan. To-day where 
are they ? Their usefulness has gone, 
and so has the light in their souls. They 
got into Zalmonah and were laid in the 
shade. They kept on and got into Punon 
and are remaining there in darkness. 
Oh, that they might arise and press their 
way yet up to Canaan's happy land ! 



CHAPTER IV. 

FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN — CROSSING THE 
JORDAN. 

There seems to be a prevailing idea 
that Jordan is a type of death, and as 
Israel passed through Jordan and entered 
Canaan, so the Christian must pass 
through some cold stream and enter in 
upon the heavenly possessions beyond. 
Granted that Jordan may mean or typify 
death ; that does not necessarily mean the 
death of the body, but death to sin. 
Again, if it should mean physical death, 
even then there is no river, but all dry 
ground. The fact is, to the one who is 
walking with God here, death does not 
become a cold stream to be forded, but, on 
the contrary, it is more like a curtain that 
has hidden from us the heavenly country, 
and our Savior says, ^^ My child, we have 
been walking together on the plane of 

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holiness here on earth, I will lift the 
cnrtain and we will continue the walk 
in the heavenly country." The only 
difference between Enoch or Elijah and 
God's holy people now, in passing to 
the better world is, that, those prophets 
took their bodies with them and others 
leave theirs behind. 

AT Jordan's brink. 
A great spiritual lesson is to be 
obtained from the crossing of Jordan into 
Canaan, typifying, as it does, the entering 
in by faith into sanctification. The great 
army of Israel have come up from the 
''howling wilderness" and stand at 
Jordan's bank. Forty years before they 
had stood at the bank of the Red Sea. 
Later, they stood at the border-land of 
Canaan, but fear and unbelief kept them 
from entering in. It is not the same 
host that stood at Kadesh-Barnea. Their 
bones are bleaching in the wilderness. 
Two of the warriors only, survive : Caleb 
and Joshua. Nearly the same number, 
though, stand on Jordan's bank as stood 
at the Red Sea, but they were children in 
Egypt or else born on the way. 



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Before the vast multitude rolls the 
Jordan, overflowing its banks. Across it 
lies the land flowing with milk and 
honey. Joshua, under God, is the leader, 
as Moses had shortly before passed away. 

The passage of the Jordan is one of the 
most striking figures of entering the 
sanctified life we can find in the 
Scriptures. 

The third and fourth chapters of 
Joshua give us this beautiful symbol. 

THE PREPARATION. 

First chapter and eleventh verse tells 
them to prepare victuals, for they are to go 
over Jordan and possess the land. What 
a contrast to leaving Egypt ! Then, they 
were to hurry and not prepare victuals ; 
now, they are to prepare. The sinner 
should hurry and get out of his sins, for 
he may be in hell the next minute. The 
believer should carefully make a definite 
dedication of all into the Lord's hand, 
thus preparing the way for the great 
blessing he is to receive. This should 
not take long ; many spend too much 
time. Give up all at once and let the 
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THE NEW WAY. 

^^For ye have not passed this way here- 
tofore." Josh, J : 4. True, they had not, 
though they knew well the route they 
had traveled. The Egyptian bondage 
lingers clear in the minds of some, though 
forty years previous. They knew the ex- 
perience of deliverance at the Red Sea. 
Sinaitic thunders seem still to reverberate 
in their ears. The sad defeat at Kadesh- 
Barnea reminded them they had passed 
close to the Promised Land thirty- 
eight years before. Murmurings, and 
disappointments, and plagues, and deaths 
still whisper to them that they had 
passed through the toilsome drudgery 
of the wilderness. But they had not 
" passed this way." When the believer 
stands face to face with the great problem 
of holiness he is very forcibly reminded 
that he has not passed that way before. 
There lies a hidden path over which his 
feet have not passed. There spreads a 
table at which he has not dined, a land 
he has not explored. He remembers his 
conversion — he knows that route, per- 
haps has been over the road many times. 



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Well lie remembers tlie defeats, tlie 
failures, the disappointments and sorrows 
througli whicli lie has passed. Yes, he 
has passed that way, but here is a way 
which he has not passed: '^the way of 
holiness." ha. J5 / 8. 

SANCTIFY YOURSELVES. 

^^And Joshua said unto the people. 
Sanctify yourselves." The Lord wanted 
them set apart, separated, devoted unto 
Him. Entire sanctification consists in 
man's work and the Lord's work. Man's 
part precedes the Lord's. 

The one who defines sanctification as 
setting apart and stops there, limits the 
meaning. It has a double meaning. 
First, to set apart, to separate, to dedicate, 
to consecrate, to devote to a sacred use. 
Second, to make holy, to purify, to 
cleanse. 

The first definition is the human 
element, the second is the divine. When 
the human side is met, the divine immedi- 
ately follows. When we sanctify our- 
selves, i. ^., dedicate, or consecrate, or 
set ourselves wholly apart unto the Lord, 
He immediately sanctifies us ; i. ^., puri- 



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fies US, cleanses us, makes us holy. Thus, 
before the children of Israel could go into 
Canaan they were to sanctify themselves, 
and before the believer to-day can enjoy 
full salvation he must sanctify, dedicate 
himself wholly unto the Lord. ^'For to- 
morrow the Lord will do wonders among 
you." This was to follow their separation 
to God. Reader, if you want the Lord to 
do wonders for you, give yourself 
entirely to Him. 

THE PROMISE. 

'^Behold, the ark of the covenant of the 
Lord of all the earth passeth over before 
you into Jordan." The ark contained 
God's word. His will, His promise. How 
appropriate that it should go before ! To 
the believer the promise stands out before, 
saying, ^^ Come on and you shall receive 
the blessing." 

The promise to the children of Israel 
was, that, as soon as the soles of the 
priests' feet should rest in the waters of 
Jordan, the waters should separate and 
they could pass on through. 

So it is to the believer to-day. When 
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promise is, if lie will step out by faith lie 
will receive tlie blessing. It is tbe toucli 
of faith. ^' Whatsoever toucbetli the altar 
shall be holy." Ex. 2g : jj. '' The altar 
sanctifieth the gift." Matt. 2j : ig. 

The woman who pressed her way 
through the throng to Jesus, only touched 
the hem of his garment; but it was the 
touch of faith, and it made her whole. 

Suppose the people had failed to step 
out into the stream when commanded to. 
Suppose they had been afraid. They 
might have said: ''It is perfect folly, it 
means to drown, and is sure death." 
Would they ever have gained the victory 
if they had not ventured in? Never. 
How many there are who come right to 
the brink of this great salvation, and fear 
to step out on the promise ! Will the 
promise fail? ''My words shall not pass 
away." Matt. 24 : j^. "Forever, O Lord, 
thy word is settled in heaven." Ps. iig : 
8g. 

Is it not strange how so many will 
stand at this place and look, and wonder, 
and query, and say, "I can't see into it," 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 7 1 

in that condition. They must venture in 
first. In some sections of the country the 
farmers have a novel way of watering 
stock. A platform is made by the side of 
the trough. The stock step out on the 
platform, and their weight opens a valve 
which lets the water flow into the trough 
and they stand and drink to their fill. If 
some wise old cow would query — as some 
Christians do to-day in regard to holiness 
— it would say, as it looks over into the 
trough from the side, ^^I can't see any 
water there. I can't understand how one 
can get a drink out of that trough." It 
turns to one more simple, and says, ^^ Did 
you get a drink there ? " ''Yes," comes 
the prompt reply. ''How?" "I stepped 
out on the platform and I found the 
trough full." Reader, venture on the 
platform of God's immutable word and 
slake your thirst. Don't wait till you 
can see into it. Don't wait till you feel 
it, for it does not come by feeling, but by 
faith. The story is told of a man, who, 
on a very cold winter day, was leaning 
against a tree, and his ax lying in the 
snow by his side. On being asked what 



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lie was doing, he replied tliat lie was 
going to chop down the tree. ^'Why 
don't you chop then ?" was asked. ^' I am 
waiting till I begin to sweat," was the 
quaint reply. Do you smile ? There is 
as much sense in that as for the believer 
to say, that, when h.^ feels he is sanctified, 
then he will believe it. Brother, you 
will never get up a holiness perspiration 
that way. 

DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY. 

'^ For Jordan overfloweth all his banks 
all the time of harvest." This was 
apparently the most difficult of all times 
to cross Jordan. The difficulties were 
maximum. Is it not thus with the 
believer ? It seems that this is the worst 
of all times for him to get sanctified. So 
many obstacles in the way. Home diffi- 
culties, business difficulties, this objection 
and that trouble, present themselves. 
Difficulties maximum. Was there ever a 
time when we needed the power for a holy 
life so much ? Amidst all the harassing 
troubles which surround us, do we not 
need the experience of holiness ? 

DIFFICULTIES VANISH. 

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Israelites? Did the waters of Jordan 
part? The record informs us that, as 
soon as the priests' feet touched the brim 
of the water, a great pathway was 
made plain; that the water on the right 
was dammed up and held back for twenty- 
j&ve or thirty miles, and that on the left 
flowed out of sight clear down to the 
Dead Sea, and the people passed right 
over. '^All things are possible with God," 
and no matter how great the difficulties, 
if there is placed underneath them the 
dynamite grain of faith, it will remove 
them all. 

RESPONSIBILITIES. 
If they had stopped to look, even then, 
at the great wall on their right, it might 
have struck them with alarm, for in grim 
menace it looked down upon them, ap- 
parently ready to swallow them up. But 
God's hand was on it, and His power 
stayed it. Right in the midst of victory 
one is apt to see on the one side a great 
wall of responsibility, requirements, duty 
and obligations, so high, so great, so 
ready to swallow him up, that he trembles 
in the balance. Can he ever meet these 



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obligations ? Will they not crush him to 
the earth? Yes, if God's hand was not 
in them. 

FOND HOPES GONE. 

What about the other side ? Like the 
waters which passed down to the Dead 
Sea, out of sight, all my fond aspirations, 
air castles, hopes, what I wanted to be 
and do, all the lovely things which my 
flesh naturally cherished before, but which 
only hindered my spiritual progress, see, 
they are going, passing out of sight, 
sinking into the dead sea of the past. 

My pet schemes are going by the board, 
my air castles are being demolished, my 
anticipations of being somebody great 
are perishing, I cannot be, I cannot do. 
What shall I do? 

What if that water on the left had not 
moved out of the way? How could those 
Israelites have passed over? What if all 
those lovely things which my carnality 
so naturally clung to had not sunk out 
of sight, and been buried in the sea of 
death, how would I ever have got through 
to the Canaan of perfect love ? The loss 
of these very things was the opening up 
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Paul said lie sufifered tlie loss of all 
things that he might win Christ. It is a 
good thing to give up and lose everything, 
and then you will not be worrying over 
anything else to lose. 

SANCTIFICATION A QUICK WORK. 

^^All the people HASTED and passed 
over." Quick work. Let us notice four 
important points in this type. 

1. They did not cross this river when 
they crossed the Red Sea. 

2. They did not grow across it, nor 
were they making much advancement in 
that direction during their wilderness life. 

3. They did not cross it in the hour 
and article of death, but, on the other 
hand, were never more lively and fitted for 
life and life's battles. 

4. They did pass over suddenly in 
haste. Blessed, quick work ! 

Reader, let no one persuade you that 
you obtained holiness at your conversion. 
Let no one so blind you as to make you 
believe you can grow into it. Let no one 
deceive you into the belief that there is 
power in death to purify your heart. Let 
God have your case and see how quickly 



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He will cleanse and fill you. '^The Lord, 
whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to 
his temple." MaL j : i. 

THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT. 

^'And it came to pass, when all the 
people were clean passed over, that the 
ark of the Lord passed over, and the 
priests, in the presence of the people." 
This might appear like a contradiction, 
for it is stated before that the ark went 
before the people. So it did, but, with the 
priests, it stopped in the midst of Jordan 
till the people had passed through, and 
then it followed on behind. So God 
stands out before the believer with his 
attracting promise till he ventures in and 
by faith gains the victory; then, like the 
ark following. He comes in with the sweet 
witness of the Spirit, and says: ^'I told 
you so; is it not just as I said?" 

RESPONSIBILITIES NOT SO GREAT. 

'' The waters of Jordan returned unto 
their place, and flowed over all his banks, 
as they did before." When they were 
safe on the other side, the wall of water 
leveled down and flowed on smoothly. So, 
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all those great duties, obligations, and 
requirements level down and smooth over, 
and are not so terrible after all. 

THE TESTIMONY. 

Joshua commanded that twelve stones 
be brought up from Jordan and formed 
into a monument in Gilgal as a testimony 
to inquiring posterity that the Lord had 
brought their fathers through the Jordan, 
as well as the Red Sea, on dry ground, so 
that the people of the earth might know 
that the Lord was mighty and that they 
might fear the Lord forever. The Lord 
is jealous of His work and glory. He 
would have the world know that He is 
able and willing to save unto the utter- 
most. He would have every sanctified 
soul build a spiritual monument, so that 
coming generations might be led to step 
out on the same rock-like promises, and 
thus say that their parents and grand- 
parents passed by this way and used to 
testify that the Lord sanctified them as 
well as justified them. 

CHANGE OF DIET. 

^'Neither had the children of Israel 
manna any more; but they did eat of 



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the fruit of the land of Canaan that 
year." This was certainly a better diet 
than formerly. Milk, honey, grapes, 
pomegranates, figs, wheat, barley, olive 
oil. What a bill of fare! It was a 
change for the better. Brother, have you 
had a change in your bill of fare? If 
not, move over into Canaan and feast 
your hungry soul from the table of 
holiness. 

DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO CROSSINGS. 

Notice a few points of marked difference 
in the two crossings. At the Red Sea 
they were fleeing in haste from a terrible 
enemy and were tremendously interested 
in getting out of bondage, and experienced 
a glorious deliverance. At the Jordan 
they were wonderfully drawn by the 
grandeur of the land of Canaan, and by 
careful meditation and dedication they 
settled into that promised rest. Thus 
the sinner flees from the arch enemy of 
souls and is wonderfully anxious to get 
out from his slavery to sin, and so the 
Lord gives him a gracious deliverance 
and regenerates him. But in holiness he 
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full-salvation country, and by a careful 
yielding of all his powers for time and 
eternity to tlie Lord, lie at once enters in 
upon a beautiful soul rest and peace 
wbicli is unspeakable and full of glory. 

At tbe Red Sea they are weak, 
trembling, unpanoplied, empty-banded. 
At Jordan tbey are strong, courageous, 
well armed and witb the sbout of victory 
in tbeir Hearts. See the sinner as be 
flees from sin to tbe Savior ; a poor, weak, 
trembling, empty-banded, unequipped 
rebel. He falls prostrate at tbe Savior's 
feet — throws up his hands and makes an 
unconditional surrender. See the believer 
as he steps into the Canaan of perfect 
love; strong in faith, bold, consecrated 
(to fill the hand) and having on the 
whole armor of God. He thus marches 
on with glory in his soul, with fire in his 
heart, with a shout upon his lips, more 
than conqueror under the Captain of his 
salvation. After the Red Sea they sang 
and shouted and had a hallelujah time, 
but immediately pushed on for Canaan. 
After the Jordan they built a monument, 
signifying, ^'We have come here to stay." 



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The sinner in His first outburst of new 
love and ecstasy of pardon is very apt to 
shout and sing and have a wonderful 
time, but the watchword, if properly 
taught, will be: ^%et us go on to 
perfection." Heb. 6 : i. 

In entering upon the experience of full 
salvation, there will be added and in- 
creased joys and blessings, but he settles 
the fact by monumental evidence that he 
has entered that country ''to go no more 
out forever." Thank God for an abiding 
place in the Savior's love where we may 
remain fixed and forever. 

** It is only a step into Canaan, 

Then why do you idly stand ? 
You are waiting just now on its borders, 

You are viewing the Promised Land. 
The land that was long ago given 

To Abraham, faithful and true. 
The land which by faith we inherit. 

Just over the line waits for you. 

*' You have eaten the heavenly manna, 

Its taste is both pleasant and sweet. 
You have drunk of the ' ' Rock, '' Christ Jesus, 

It has followed your wandering feet. 
But this is a land of plenty. 

Abounding in corn and wine. 
Say, will you not cross its borders ? 

One step and it all shall be thine. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 8 1 

*'Take Christ as your perfect salvation, 

Believe, you shall surely be blest. 
Accept all that Jesus has promised, 

And enter this land of sweet rest. 
Then fear not the strong walled cities, 

And fear not the Anakims tall, 
Our *' Joshua " goeth before us. 

And Jericho surely shall fall. 

'' It is faith that brings the possession. 

By faith we are kept in the way. 
Just trusting Him moment by moment. 

Brings victory day after day. 
Praise God for a glorious soul rest, 

From inward pollution made free; 
Praise God for His wondrous salvation, 

Christ has purchased for you and me. " 



CHAPTER V. 

CANAAN. 

This wonderful land flowing with milk 
and honey very beautifully symbolizes 
the sanctified life. The Apostle Paul 
very clearly presents this in the fourth 
chapter of Hebrews. He calls the 
Israelites' failure to enter Canaan, the 
failure of entering into rest, and then 
applies it to us and tells us to ''fear, lest 
a promise being left us of entering into 
his rest, any of j^ou should seem to come 
short of it." Heb. 4 : /. This rest 
spoken of here does not refer to heaven, 
as so many think Canaan typifies, for the 
apostle adds that, ''we which have believed 
do enter into rest," and then says, "let us 
labor therefore to enter into that rest," 
signifying an immediate effort for it. 
This cannot refer to heaven, for we could 
not die immediately unless we should 

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commit suicide, and that would not bring 
much rest to the soul. 

Again, Canaan is not a type of heaven, 
for there was much fighting to be done 
and many victories to be won there, but 
in heaven there is no fighting. We are 
to be more than conquerors here and 
enter in upon our reward there. 

^'But when ye go over Jordan, and 
dwell in the land which the Lord your 
God giveth you to inherit, and when he 
giveth you rest from all your enemies 
round about, so that ye dwell in safety." 
Deut. 12 : 10, In this text there are four 
very prominent features illustrating the 
sanctified life. 

I. It was a gift. "Giveth you to 
inherit." They got their charter from 
heaven. It was purely a gift from God. 
Full salvation is a gift. The gift of the 
Holy Ghost. Canaan was not bought, 
merited, or worked for. and received, as 
pay for something done. "Speak not in 
thine heart, saying, For my righteousness 
the Lord hath brought me in to possess 
this land." Deut. g : 4, Holiness is not 
merited nor can it be bought with money. 



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Simon tried it and utterly failed. We 
do not merit it, we are unworthy of the 
least favors. We cannot obtain it by 
works, lest any man should boast. 
Neither can we grow into it. It is a gift. 
Can one grow into a gift? Could they 
have grown into Canaan? They could 
get in and then grow, and grow faster 
than in the desert. It being a gift shows 
how quickly it can be obtained. A 
loving Giver and a glad recipient. The 
Giver holds it out, the recipient receives it 
at once and has it to the joy of his heart. 
2. // was their dwelling place, ''And 
dwell in the land." God never intended 
for them to camp forever on the banks of 
the Red Sea or lodge in the wilderness. 
When they crossed the sea and saw their 
enemies cast into its depths, they sang 
and shouted and praised the Lord, but 
their watchword was, ''On to Canaan." 
But when they crossed over into the 
Promised Land finally, they built a 
monument signifying they had come 
there to stay. So in the Christian life, 
when the sinner gets converted he sings 
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sees his sins cast into the depths of the 
sea. But he must not stop there. '^ Let 
us go on unto perfection." Heb, 6 : i. 

The salvation of the Bible, the life 
portrayed, the plane upon which to walk 
with God, is holiness. God never in- 
tended a soul to get justified and dwell 
there and not go on to holiness. A little 
more of that song, ^' I Feel Like Going 
On, Brother," would be good for those 
who have camped, lo, these many years, 
under the same old tree. How many 
there are who are living to a great extent 
on their past experience ! Their happiest 
day was when they were born again, and 
now, after many years have passed away, 
when they want to get happy, they take 
a retrospective glance to the old log in 
the woods, or corn patch, or mourners' 
bench, and sing, ''Happy Day, When 
Jesus Washed My Sins Away." And 
yet that is a good song, and that was a 
glad day and one to be remembered, but 
is not this a better song and a better 
experience ? 

*' I praise the lyord for all He gives, 
And ask for more and more. 

'Twas joyous once, 'tis glorious now. 
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3. // was a place of rest, '^ He giveth 
you rest." Rest from their weary 
wanderings. Rest from their fears and 
doubts and murmurings and defeats. 
Rest from their unsatisfied hunger and 
thirst. Holiness gives rest. How sweet 
to rest in Jesus ! 

Rest from fear and doubt. Rest from 
murmurings and complainings. Rest 
from worrying and from harassing cares. 
Rest from the carnal mind. Resting on 
the promise, knowing '^that all things 
work together for good." jRom. 8 :28. 

**A rest where all our soul's desire 

Is fixed on things above ; 
Where fear, and sin, and grief expire, 

Cast out by perfect love/' 

4. It was a safe dwelling place. '^So 
that ye dwell in safety." This safety 
was secured by their obedience to God 
and thus being overcomers. Thank God 
for a safe dwelling place. How secure 
one feels when he knows that he is hid 
away in the cleft of the rock, when 
Christ is abiding within, when the Holy 
Ghost is flooding his soul! '^Perfect love 
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within cast out, and salvation as walls and 
bulwarks surrounding tlie soul, and being 
always on guard, and depending on Him 
wbo never lost a battle, surely, this is a 
safe abiding place. Not tbat it is 
impossible to fall, but tbere is no 
necessity of it. Inspbered by tbe Lord, 
bow grand! 

^'As tbe mountains are round about 
Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about bis 
people from bencefortli even forever." 
Psa. 125:2, Here is the Lord round 
about us. '^ Under bis wings shalt tbou 
trust." Psa.gi:4, The Lord above us. 
^^ Underneath are the everlasting arms." 
Deut. jj :2'/. The Lord under us. ^'Be- 
cause he is at my right hand, I shall 
not be moved." Psa, 16 : 8. The Lord 
at our side. '^Hereby know we that we 
dwell in him, and he in us." i Jno. 4: ij. 
The Lord in us and we in Him. Is this 
not safety? Need any fail? The Lord 
round about us, and over us, and under 
us, and by our side, and in us and we in 
Him ! Blessed insphering ! 

Again, in Deut, 8 .-y-g we find the land 
further described : 

I. It was a good land. Holiness is a 



88 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

good experience. Good at home or 
abroad. In adversity or prosperity. In 
sickness or in liealtli, all the time and 
nnder all circumstances. 

2. A land of brooks of water. Plenty 
of flowing water. ^^WitH joy shall ye 
draw water out of the wells of salvation." 
ha, 12 :j. 

^^A well of water springing up into 
everlasting life.'' Jno. 4:14* No more 
working away at the rusty old pump — 
pumping, and priming, and working to get 
a little joy; but, like the artesian well, 
holiness enables us to bubble up and run 
over, and water the dreary wastes around 
us. 

3- ^^Of fountains and depths !^^ Surely, 
here is the fountain open to the house of 
David for sin and uncleanness. The 
fountain that makes every whit whole. 
Deep? A deeper work of grace surely. 
Deeper than any stain of sin. If the 
atonement of Christ in His cleansing 
blood cannot get as deep down in the soul 
as the devil has put sin, surely, it must 
be a failure. Is it a failure ? ^^Cleanseth 
from all sin." / Jno. i:y. 



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4. ''A land of wheat and bar ley, ^^ 
This is bread. Plenty of the staff of life. 
'^I am that bread of life." Jno. 6:48. 
With Him dwelling in the soul there is a 
continual feast. 

5. ''Vznes, and fig trees,, and pome- 
granates!'^ Plenty of fruit. ^'Ye have 
your fruit unto holiness.'^ Rom. 6 : 22. 

How productive are the vine, the fig 
tree, and pomegranate! In some places 
the vine produces what they call the 
second crop, and the fig the third crop, in 
one year. And the pomegranate, packed 
full of seeds surrounded by the juice, 
is capable of so much reproduction. Full 
salvation is the fruit-bearing experience. 
God desires holiness reproduction. It is 
not sufficient that we get saved ourselves, 
but that w^e get enough salvation so that 
we can bring forth much fruit in the way 
of saving many others. 

6. ^^A land of oil olivet That was 
the land that produced the oil. The 
place to strike oil is in Beulah land. Oil 
is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. ''Thy 
God hath anointed thee with the oil of 
gladness above thy fellows." Heb. i :g. 



90 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

"Thou anointest my head with oil." 
Psa. 2 J .-5. Oil for all the running gear 
of our natures. Some people have been 
lying idle so long, the machinery of their 
souls has got so rusty they can scarcely 
work at all. Their tongues do not speak 
much or praise much, the heart is too 
sluggish to love much, their eyes are not 
quick to see opportunities for good, their 
ears do not detect the still, small voice of 
Jesus, their brain is not active in plan- 
ning for God, their feet are too slow 
to run on missions for Christ, their 
fingers are too stiff to write comforting 
letters or deal much in salvation matters. 
In fact, the whole being is too clogged and 
rusty. Get oiled up with the oil of glad- 
ness, get the anointing of the Holy 
Ghost, strike fresh oil in the land of 
promise, and see how quickly the heart 
will love, the tongue will speak, the eyes 
will see, the ears will hear, the feet will 
run, and the hands will work. With all 
the wheels and bearings of the soul in 
good working order and well oiled, how 
much easier can one work for God and 
run the race set before us ! 



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7. ^^Andhoneyy A honey experience. 
Reader, have you a honey experience? 
Joshua told the people after they got into 
the land, ''Now therefore fear the Lord, 
and serve him in sincerity and in truth." 
Josh. 24:14. The word sincere is often 
used instead of perfection, and means 
honey without wax. They were in the 
place where there was plenty of honey. 
Christian perfection is the strained-honey 
experience. The sweetness of perfect 
love. 

A certain minister, on glancing at 
some packages in a grocery store, noticed 
these words on one of them : ''Warranted 
to keep sweet in all climates." Evidently 
the parties who put up the packages 
knew the contents would be subject to 
many changes of cold and heat, and 
would travel by sea and land, north, 
south, east and west, and yet it was 
warranted to keep sweet. 

Full salvation warrants to keep sweet 
in all climates ; through heat and cold, 
wet and dry, by land and sea, through 
the various vicissitudes of life, a honey 
experience. Some professing Christians 



92 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

do not have a honey experience; their 
religion seems to have sonred on them ; 
they do not seem to be preserved, bnt 
pickled. If yon are bonnd to be a pickle, 
be a sweet pickle. 

Oh, for more honey in onr lives ! A 
salvation that keeps sweet in trying 
circnmstances : when there is a heavy 
washing to pnt ont on bine Monday. 
Happy over the wash-tnb ! Saying ''Praise 
the Lord!", when the clothesline breaks. 
Smiling for the Lord when the children 
seem possessed. Loving your neighbor 
when his boy whips yonr boy, or when 
their chickens get into yonr yard, or the 
cow gets into yonr pumpkin patch. 
Shouting ''Glory !" when the cow kicks 
the milk over you ; singing a song when 
the horse balks or steps on your foot. 
Saying "All right, dear," when you have 
to get up in the middle of a cold night 
and rock the sick baby. Is this your 
experience, reader? These are practical 
experiences. These are not happenings 
in heaven, but right down here where we 
live. 

8. Plenty to eat and nothing lacking. 



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^'A land wherein thou shalt eat bread 
without scarceness, thou shalt not lack 
anything in it." ^^If ye be willing and 
obedient, ye shall eat the good of the 
land.'' ha. i : ig, '' Eat ye that which is 
good, and let your soul delight itself in fat- 
ness." Isa. S5 '^' How lean some Chris- 
tians are ! Like Pharaoh's kine, they can 
scarcely cast a shadow. Why be so lean 
when there is plenty to eat and to spare ? 
Is there any lack in your experience? 
Get into Canaan. Have you no power ? 
Tarry in the upper room, and ^'ye shall 
receive the power of the Holy Ghost 
coming upon you." Acts i :8. Do you 
lack boldness? Perfect love is the 
remedy. How it casts out fear! You 
cannot speak ? Plenty of new tongues in 
Canaan. Thou shalt not lack anything 
in it. '^ My God shall supply all your 
need." Phil. 4 : iQ* 

9. Iron and Brass. .^^A land whose 
stones are iron and out of whose hills 
thou may est dig brass." Stones here sig- 
nify strength, and brass signifies stability. 
Are you feeble and vacillating? Move 
'over into Canaan. Many precious souls 



94 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

wonder why they are so weak and why 
they are constantly up and down. God 
teaches us that we are established in 
holiness. This solves the question why 
there are so many weaklings. They are 
not in holiness. Settle in Beulah, 
brother. ^'Thy shoes shall be iron and 
brass; and as thy days, so shall thy 
strength be." Deut. 33:2^. 

We find this experience further 
symbolized in Deut. 11:11^12. '^ But the 
land, whither ye go to possess it, is a 
land of hills and valleys, and drinketh 
water of the rain of heaven : a land which 
the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes 
of the Lord thy God are always upon 
it, from the beginning of the year 
even unto the end of the year." 
What a figure of God's watchful 
care! The rain from heaven falls upon 
Canaan. Showers of blessing come upon 
the truly sanctified. The eyes of the 
Lord are over the land all the year and 
He cares for it. '' For the eyes of the Lord 
run to and fro throughout the whole 
earth, to show himself strong in the 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 95 

toward him." 2 Chron. 16 :g. Surely 
God's watchful eyes are upon us. From 
the beginning of the year to its close, we 
can be kept by power divine. Shall we 
rely upon His strength to uphold us ? 

We find this life further typified in 
Joshua I :j. '^ Every place that the sole 
of your foot shall tread upon, that have I 
given unto you, as I said unto Moses." 
It was already given them. They could 
have all they would claim. If they were 
content with an acre, all right; if they 
wanted realms, they were simply to move 
on and they owned them. 

How content some people are to be 
staked out with a twelve-foot rope until 
they have eaten all the grass off and are 
nearly starved! Where are your feet 
treading? In green pastures beside still 
waters? Are you living in Zalmonah 
(shady) on Grumbling Alley, or in 
Beulah on Hallelujah Avenue? Are you 
content with a little lot in the wilderness, 
or are you in possession of vast domains 
in Canaan ? Where are the soles of your 
feet treading ? Have you stepped out on 
the promise and got under the blood ? Are 



96 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

you claiming the promise of the Father ? 
Have you ventured out on the promise 
for a pure heart? There are yet heights 
and depths, lengths and breadths of 
Canaan, which none of us have yet 
explored. 

Again, in Joshua 3:10^ we find 
the victory typified. Here God promised 
to drive out before them the Canaanites, 
the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, 
the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the 
Jebusites. Here are seven nations to be 
overcome. Seven is the complete, the 
perfect number in Scripture. A perfect 
victory, a complete overcoming. The 
devil, carnality, worldliness, trials and 
obstacles whose name is legion, may 
arise, but God has promised victory. 
''And they overcame him by the blood of 
the Lamb and by the word of their 
testimony." Never a succumber, but 
always an overcomer. 

Thus we find, in this beautiful type 
of Canaan, that the Lord gives us a 
Christian experience where we may dwell 
in safety and rest. With springing 
brooks and flowing waters, and fountains 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 97 

of cleansing ; always in reach, of the 
Bread of Life, and always bringing forth, 
fruit abundantly; with the oil of gladness 
and the honey of love ; with plenty to eat 
and nothing lacking; with strength 
according to our days and stability in the 
hours of trial ; with all the vast domain of 
God's love and grace to explore and 
enjoy, and the promise of continual 
victory througb Jehovah, wlio would not 
live in Canaan ? 

*'This rest it is for you, 

Then leave the wilderness. 
You'll find God's word is true, 

You're able to possess. 
So put away the thing 

That He doth not allow 
And if your all to Christ you bring, 

You're living in Canaan now." 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE PERFECT SURPRISE CHAPTER. 
Gen. ly. 

This is one of the most wonderful 
chapters in the whole Bible. We call it 
the surprise chapter of the Bible, because 
it is so filled with happy surprises ; the 
perfect surprise chapter, because the 
number is seven, and that is the perfect 
number. These seven surprises represent 
seven changes, and all beautifully illus- 
trate the experience of holiness. It is 
a great depository of holiness typology. 
Notice that all these glorious surprises, or 
changes, were communicated by God to 
Abraham, in one conversation of perhaps 
only a few minutes, for the twenty-second 
verse reads, '^And he left off talking with 
him, and God went up from Abraham." 

I. A spiritual change, ''I am the 
Almighty God ; walk before me, and be 

98 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 99 

thou perfect." What a surprise this 
must have been to this aged man, only 
one year short of his centennial anni- 
versary ! Abraham was not the only one 
whom God ever called to walk before 
Him and be perfect. 

This call goes out to all the world for 
His children to walk before Him and be 
perfect. Nowhere does He say, walk 
before the world and be perfect, for there 
are many in the world who would not 
consider any one as perfect. Even the 
Savior, who was always perfect and did 
not make a mistake in anything, was 
accused of having a devil, and was finally 
killed as a malefactor. Many mistake 
the word perfection for absolute per- 
fection, and, knowing that it is impossible 
to come into such a state as that, reject 
the teaching of Christian perfection. 

It is very evident that no man can be 
absolutely perfect, for that is predicated 
of God only ; nor have Edenic perfection, 
for that included physical perfection. 
Resurrection perfection is not for this 
life, but only for the glorified state 
beyond. But, thank God, we may enjoy 



lOO HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

Cliristian perfection. Jesus said : "Be 
ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
whicli is in heaven is perfect," which 
simply means be ye therefore perfect in 
your sphere, as Christians, as God is 
perfect in His sphere as God. We cannot 
be perfect gods, but we can be perfect 
Christians. We can enjoy perfect love, 
perfect peace, loyalty, trust, and purity 
in our hearts. A heart that loves in its 
entirety; a peace which passeth under- 
standing ; a loyalty which admits of no 
defeat; a trust unmixed with doubt, and 
a purity free from all carnality. The 
same word, translated perfect, is also 
translated sincere. (See margin.) The 
word sincere is a plain, simple word, but 
used in the ancient sense it is very 
significant in expressing the sweetness of 
sanctification. Sincere comes from two 
Latin words, sine^ without, and cera^ wax, 
and means honey without wax. Full 
salvation brings sweetness into the heart, 
and life, and home, and church. 

2. A change in the outlook, "I will 
multiply thee exceedingly." How this 
must have surprised the centenarian! 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY lOI 

Our God knows just how to give His 
people happy surprises. He can give tlie 
greatest promises and can always fulfill 
them. What a blessed outlook when one 
gets sanctified ! What a grand prospect ! 
Multiplication begins at holiness. Abra- 
ham was not looking for this — he had 
lived so long without being multiplied 
that he never expected anything of the 
kind. Some people have jogged along at 
a poor, dying rate so long, that they never 
seem to expect anything different. They 
bring no one to Christ — they never 
multiply. How changed the scene when 
one gets a pure heart ! Bright prospects 
ahead. Looking out into the future, he 
sees the mighty possibilities. He feels 
surely, now he can bring forth spiritual 
fruit and be multiplied. 

3. Change in his name. ^'Neither 
shall thy name any more be called 
Abram, but thy name shall be Abra- 
ham." This was surprise number three. 
Just to think of changing a man's name 
at the age of ninety-nine ! We sometimes 
change a baby's name, but who ever 
heard of a change at such an age ? God 



I02 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

sometimes does strange things, but they 
are very fitting. This was a fitting name, 
Abraham. Names in Scripture were 
generally very significant. Frequently a 
child was named in consequence of some 
characteristic or something in connection 
with the birth. This name was charac- 
teristic. His change in name agreed 
with the change in the outlook. It 
means, father of a great multitude. 
There comes a new name in the experi- 
ence of sanctification. 

''To him that overcometh will I give to 
eat of the hidden manna, and will give 
him a white stone, and in the stone a new 
name written.'' Rev. 2 : ij. ''And thou 
shalt be called by a new name." ha. 
62 : 2. "And all the people of the earth 
shall see that thou art called by the name 
of the Lord." Deut. 28:10. But what is the 
Lord's name? "Whose name is Holy." 
Isa. ^y : 75. Somehow or other, when one 
gets sanctified, the word "holy" gets 
incorporated into his name, for sanctify 
means to make holy. "And they shall 
call them. The holy people." Isa. 62 : 12. 
This change of name comes with the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY I03 

Canaan experience. It was so with 
Abraham. The Lord immediately made 
him heir to Canaan, as the next snrprise 
will show. Now Canaan was called 
Benlah. ^'And thy land Benlah (see 
margin, married) : for the Lord delighteth 
in thee, and thy land shall be married." 
ha, 62 : 4. Thus we see that when one 
gets into Benlah Land, he gets into 
the married relation to the Lord. It is 
in the married relation that the bride's 
name is changed. When we get sancti- 
fied we become the Lamb's bride, hence 
the change in name. ^^For both he that 
sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, 
are all of one." Heb, 2 : 11. 

The old patriarch's name was changed 
from Abram to Abraham. Abram 
means a high father, Abraham means 
father of a great multitude; we might 
say, a higher father. Justification is 
a high life, but sanctification is ^^ the 
higher life." Abraham is about the same 
as Abram, only more of it. Sanctification 
is not a new religion ; it is the same as we 
had before, only more of it. ^%ife more 
abundantly." Notice in that change 



I04 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

there are two distinct features : first, there 
is the taking away of the last letter ^^m," 
and then adding the syllable ^'ham." 
First a subtraction, then an addition. 
This also takes place in sanctification. 
The carnal mind or inbred sin is sub- 
tracted and the Holy Ghost baptism of 
fire is the addition. The word ''ham" 
means warm. He had a warmer experi- 
ence ; we have the fire of the Holy Ghost. 
Some think we are to be sanctified by 
growth, that is, by addition. Not so ; it 
is by subtraction as well. 

A brother once asked the writer if he 
thought one could be converted one day, 
and in two or three days go right on and 
get sanctified. We answered ''Certainly." 
Said he, "I should think he would get so 
loaded up he would not know what to do 
with himself." We told him he had the 
cart before the horse, that sanctification 
was getting unloaded first. 

The great trouble with the Christian 
world is, they are so loaded down with 
pride, wofldliness, and carnality, that 
there must be a tremendous unloading as 
well as loading, before they are sanctified. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 105 

Many would like holiness if it con- 
sisted only in tlie ^4oading/' but they 
shrink from the unloading. They are 
like the colored porter who said: "I 
would like to be a Christian, but I dreads 
the process." If Abraham had reasoned 
like some modem Christians, in con- 
nection with sanctification, it would be 
about like this : ^^ I don't mind trying to 
walk before God in a perfect way — I 
want to be as close to Him as possible. 
I like this change in the outlook, I see 
great possibilities ahead and many bless- 
ings in store. Canaan is a grand country 
to possess, and the only thing I object to 
is this long name which the Lord has 
given me. It seems so unnecessary and 
so long, Ab-ra-ham. I wouldn't care so 
much as far as I am concerned, but what 
will the people say? I detest being 
thought a crank. I have lived so long 
with the shorter name, and now if I go in 
for something more, the people may 
think that I didn't own the first. I don't 
think I can stem the tide, so will just 
content myself with Abram." How like 
people to-day! ^'Sanctification, or holiness, 



Io6 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

is such a big, long name. The people 
object to it so much. They will call 
me a holiness crank. If I could just 
get it, and live it, and not profess it. I 
have lived so long in a justified state, 
now, if I go to seeking holiness the people 
will think I am backslidden.'' 

Suppose Abraham had utterly refused 
to accept the name the Lord had given ; 
would it not have resulted in his failure 
to walk before Him with a perfect heart, 
and would he ever have been the father 
of a great multitude promised him, and 
would he ever have had the land of 
Canaan for his possession, and his seed 
after him ? I think not. Let us beware 
how we fail to confess the name. 

Disobedience is sin. Failure to accept 
what God gives will result disastrously 
to our Christian experience. Many have 
failed in a holy walk and Canaan experi- 
ence because they objected to the name 
which God has attached to it. Some 
think not much depends on a name, but 
we read of one man in the Bible who sud- 
denly found out the importance of calling 
things by the right name. When 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 107 

Zacliarias, who had been dumb for a 
season, wrote ^'His name is John," 
immediately his mouth flew open, and 
his tongue was loosed, and he was filled 
with the Holy Ghost, and began to 
preach a holiness sermon right away, 
saying that the Lord always did have 
holy people, and that we could have 
deliverance from our enemies and '^ serve 
him without fear in holiness and 
righteousness before him all the days of 
our life." Result: The whole country 
stirred for miles around. Many a tongue 
to-day is tied, and many a heart lacks the 
filling of the Holy Ghost, because they 
hold back on a name. Others wanted to 
call the child Zacharias, because John was 
not common. Possibly there would have 
been no objection to this, if it had been 
for his middle name, but it could not be 
proper for the first name, for God had 
settled that in the past. His name is 
John. How common to substitute for 
sanctification, or some other Bible ex- 
pression for the same thing, such words 
as ''more religion," ''higher life," 
"deeper work of grace," "a big blessing." 



I08 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

There may not be any objection to 
this if one wants to throw them in 
once in a while as a middle name, but let 
the first name be what God has settled 
on. One may preach ^' more religion," 
"deeper work of grace," and "higher 
life," and perhaps never stop the devil 
from snoring, but let him begin to preach 
entire sanctification, and old Beelzebub 
jumps from his bed of brimstone and 
calls on Legion, big devils and small, and 
says : " Come, quick, there's a man 
up there preaching sanctification; our 
property is in danger ; let us hurry and 
stop his mouth." But when one gets his 
mouth open, big enough to let out that 
word, the devil hasn't a plug large 
enough to stop it up. 

Some people seem to be about as 
anxious as Satan himself to stop the 
spread of holiness. But, see here, if the 
devil has made a failure of it, there is no 
use of your trying. Do not be on the 
same side with the devil. Here is a 
criterion by which one may know posi- 
tively which is the right side of a 
question : first, find out the side on which 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY IO9 

the devil is and then take the other. On 
which side of the holiness question is the 
devil ? 

4. A change in his possessions. ^^And 
I will give unto thee, and to thy seed 
after thee, the land wherein thou art a 
stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an 
everlasting possession." How much 
richer by this gift! ^^AU the land of 
Canaan." The promise was to him and 
his children. Canaan, a type of holi- 
ness. How much richer it makes its 
recipient! The gift of the Holy Ghost! 
Peter said : '' The promise is unto you and 
to your children." How like the land of 
Canaan ! The posterity of Abraham 
could look back through the vista of time 
and say: ^^ Our father Abraham lived in 
this land." There are many to-day who 
can look back and ^ay : '^My father lived 
in the experience of holiness." Let it be 
handed down to future, generations, that 
we possessed the Canaan of perfect love. 
This certainly must have been a very 
happy surprise to fall heir so suddenly 
to such a vast fortune. What would we 
think of him beginning to oppose such a 



no HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

blessing when the promise came to him ? 
Yet that is what many do. The vast 
fortune of the gift of the Holy Ghost in 
perfect love is shunned, rejected, opposed 
by many; neither accepting it them- 
selves, nor wanting others to. Oh, for 
the hungering and thirsting after 
righteousness which results in the fill- 
ing! 

5. A physical change. "Every man 
child among you shall be circumcised." 
Here we see that Abraham had the honor 
of instituting the rite of circumcision. 
This is one of the clearest types of sancti- 
fication in the Bible. It was so clearly 
a symbol, that, frequently in the Old 
Testament Scriptures it is used to 
express the spiritual change. And, in 
fact, it seems from Joshua to John the 
Baptist, no other kind*is mentioned save 
one exception. While, literally, it means 
to the Hebrew the putting away of that 
bodily impurity, so, spiritually, it means 
the putting away of original impurity 
or sin. A good definition of sanctifi- 
cation is found in the Methodist Catechism. 
"What is entire sanctification ? " Answer. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY III 

'^The State of being entirely cleansed from 
sin, so as to love God with all our heart, 
and mind, and soul, and strength, and our 
neighbor as ourselves." Loving God 
with all the heart is perfect love, and 
perfect love is the work of sanctification. 
No one loves God with all the heart, so 
long as the carnal mind, which is enmity 
against God, remains in the heart. 

Now the question naturally arises, 
what must be done to the heart in order 
to love God in its entirety ? We have 
the answer in Dent, jo : 6 : "And the 
Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, 
and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord 
thy God with all thine heart, and with 
all thy soul, that thou mayest live." 
Here we see plainly, that in order to love 
God with the whole heart, it must be 
circumcised first. The next question 
naturally following is, what is this 
circumcision of the heart which is a 
prerequisite of perfect love ? We find the 
answer in CoL 2:11: "In whom ye 
were also circumcised with a circum- 
cision not made with hands, in the putting 
off of the body of the flesh, in the circum- 
cision of Christ." (Rev. Ver.) Here we 



112 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

have stated very clearly that spiritual 
circumcision is the putting off of the 
^' body of the flesh." Flesh, here, does not 
mean the corporeity of man, but the 
carnal, fleshly nature; the old man, the 
body of sin, the carnal mind. But this 
cleansing is the work done in sanctifi- 
cation. Hence the circumcision of the 
heart. As in literal circumcision there is 
an instantaneous excision, or the cutting 
off and putting away of a certain part of 
the flesh, so in spiritual circumcision, or 
sanctification, there is, as the original 
plainly shows, a ^'putting off" and away 
from the heart, inbred sin. Col. 2 \ii. 

Following this type of purity, we have 
the order of sanctification in the plan of 
salvation clearly set forth. 

(i) It is not received at the new birth. 
The Hebrew child was first born, then 
afterwards circumcised. The natural 
birth, then the literal circumcision. So 
in the antitype, we are first born again, 
then sanctified. First the spiritual birth, 
then the spiritual circumcision. Circum- 
cision is an excision. It cannot be a type 
of regeneration, for regeneration is a 
birth. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY II3 

(2) // was not postponed till death ^ but^ 
on the contrary^ was to be performed 
shortly after birth. Nowhere does tlie 
Scripture teacli that the experience of 
holiness must be postponed till death, 
but, thank God, one may press his way 
into the blessing right away after his 
regeneration. 

(3) // is not the slow process of growth. 
At a glance, we can see the instantaneous- 
ness of the type which shadows forth the 
quickness of the spiritual change in heart 
purity. One may be a long time think- 
ing about holiness, wanting it, praying 
about it, and consecrating for it; but 
when he obtains the blessing it will come 
suddenly. All the types illustrating full 
salvation, teach the suddenness of this 
work. Crossing Jordan, entering the 
holy of holies, casting out Ishmael, the 
anointing with oil, the filling of the 
temple, etc. Spiritual circumcision is 
clearly the work of God. ^^And the Lord 
thy God will circumcise thine heart." 
Deut. JO : 6. Then, it being a work of 
God, why, as though it were all human 
efi'ort, shall we groan, and strive, and 



114 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

work for years to accomplisli it by 
growth, or some other gradual process? 
Reader, will you submit to the Great 
Physician and let Him perform the 
spiritual surgical operation, and thus 
cut away from your heart that which 
obstructs your growth, so that you may 
be every whit whole ? 

6. A change in the wife. ^'As for 
Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her 
name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be." 
How good God is ! He wanted the wife 
to enjoy the blessings of heaven as well 
as Abraham. It is supposed that Sarai 
means contentious, but Sarah means 
princess. If a contentious woman will 
let the Lord have His way supremely 
with her. He will surely and soon trans- 
form her into a princess. It would seem 
that Abraham's cup had run over and the 
blessing had fallen upon his wife. We 
need not expect to be much of a blessing 
to others till our own cup runs over. 
Dear faithful husband or wife, have you 
been praying and longing for the same 
sweet change which you have experi- 
enced, to come upon your companion? 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY I15 

Keep believing, keep sweet, keep impor- 
tuning ; God hears your prayers, and is 
working on tkat heart, and you have a 
right to expect the change. 

7. A change in the family. "And I 
will bless her, and give thee a son also of 
her; yea, I will bless her and she shall 
be a mother of nations ; kings of people 
shall be of her." The promise of a child ! 
Many are the Christians who have never 
had any spiritual children ! Years have 
passed by and they have been agents 
in bringing no one to God until now — 
they never expect to bring forth 
such spiritual fruit. But let them sweep 
into the experience of holiness and get 
the power from on high, and how quickly 
things and expectations will change. 
The first thing they know, some one is 
bom again. The great requisite for soul 
winning, for bringing forth spiritual 
children, is the baptism with the Holy 
Ghost. 

Let the church get sanctified, and the 
result will be spiritually as it was 
literally with Abraham and Sarah. 
Somebody will be "born again." A church 



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that does not bring forth new-born souls, 
needs tbe antitype of this perfect surprise 
chapter. Can we wonder at the action of 
Abraham, when all these glad surprises 
came rolling in upon him, that ^^ he fell 
upon his face, and laughed"? Ver. ly. 
Would it not put holy laughter in one's 
.heart to-day, to hear the call of the Lord 
for a perfect walk, changing his charac- 
ter, brightening the outlook of his life, 
changing his experience into the name of 
holiness, enriching him with the pos- 
session of the Canaan of perfect love, 
circumcising his heart, sanctifying his 
companion, and promising him spiritual 
children? Put your ear up to heaven's 
telephone, and hear it. The keynote to 
this chapter and these surprises is the 
third verse : ^'And Abram fell on his 
face : and God talked with him." If you 
want to be happily surprised, get on your 
face before God. If you want to hear 
God speak, fall on your face before Him. 
If you want heaven's multiplied bless- 
ings, purifying your heart, enriching 
your experience, blessing your family, 
making you a soul-winner, live on your 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY II7 

face before God. He gets tlie nearest 
heaven who goes down the deepest in 
humility. He gets the most who loses 
the most. He lives best who dies best. 
He runs the fastest who tarries the 
longest on his knees. Heavenly para- 
doxes, and may heaven multiply them ! 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 

This beautiful department of the taber- 
nacle, with its furniture, wonderfully 
illustrates the inner life of holiness. 
The Apostle Paul speaks of it, in detail, 
in the ninth chapter of Hebrews, 
mentioning particularly the furniture. 
In Heb. lo : /p, 20^ he tells us that we 
have ^^ boldness to enter into the holiest 
by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living 
way, which he hath consecrated for us, 
through the veil, that is to say, his 
flesh." Whatever is typified in this 
holy place, we have a right to enter in 
and enjoy it. And the way in, he says, 
^4s through the veil — his flesh." We 
wish, first, to notice the room, then the 
veil, and then the furniture. 

THE ROOM. 

It was a perfect cube, ten cubits long, 
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ten cubits wide, and ten cubits bigli. 
About fifteen feet each way. How 
beautifully this sets fortb tbe holy life in 
its order, strength, and stability, 

1. Order. Length, breadth, and height 
equal. What a picture of order ! Holi- 
ness puts things in order. Enables one 
to order his course aright. An orderly 
life. The length, breadth, and height of 
his walk and life is one of order. He 
walks with God and is '^ an example of the 
believers, in word, in conversation, in 
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 
I Tim. 4 : 12. 

2. Perfection. A perfect cube ! What 
a symbol! A perfect heart, a perfect 
love, a perfect trust, a perfect loyalty and 
submission, a perfect peace. ^'I will 
walk within my house with a perfect 
heart." Psa. loi : 2. 

3. Stability. Proportionate, solid, 
strong, ''To the end he may stablish 
your hearts unblamable in holiness." / 
Thess. 3:13* 

The stablishing point in Christian life 
is holiness. It puts an end to the up- 
and-down, in-and-out, to-and-fro, zigzag 



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experience. If a cube were tipped over, 
turned around, or knocked about, it would 
be in as good shape afterward as before. 
A real sanctified experience can be cuffed 
about, knocked down, or blown to tke 
skies, and it always conies down right 
side up. If a cat is held up by the feet 
and dropped, it always lights on its feet. 
Why? It is the nature of the animal. 
It is the nature of holiness to always 
enable its possessor to be right side up. 
THE VEIL. 

This separated between the holy place 
and the most holy or holiest of all. 
A type of Christ ! The high priest could 
not enter the most holy place, except 
through the veil. The believer cannot 
enter the state of holiness except through 
Christ. It was made of ''fine twined 
linen." Fine linen signified purity, 
righteousness. The colors were blue, 
purple, and scarlet. 

Blue^ the heavenly color. He came 
from heaven, the Son of God, Christ 
divine. 

Purple^ kingly glory. Purple was used 
in robing kings. They placed the purple 
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Scarlet^ tlie red color. Signifying the 
blood, the life. Christ, with His human- 
ity, one who would give His life, shed 
His blood for all. Notice the order — 
blue, purple, scarlet; God, King, man. 
What a step between the first and last — 
God and man ! The Kingship reaches 
both ways and modifies the difference. 
What a difference between blue and 
scarlet ! Unharmonious ! Put in purple 
and it harmonizes with blue, also scarlet, 
and makes one harmonious whole. 

When Christ shows Himself as King, 
it seems to reach up one way till we 
behold His divinity, and down the other 
way till we can behold his humanity. 

The order of these colors is not by 
chance, for the same colors are mentioned 
twenty-four times in Exodus, and always 
in the same order. While these colors 
convey to us the different aspects of 
Christ, they also illustrate our own 
Christian experience in holiness, or that 
lying back of the veil. Blue — the divine. 
We are made partakers of the ^' divine 
nature." Purple — kingship. We are 
made kings and priests. Scarlet — 



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humanity. Of course we are yet human. 
Back of this veil was the holy quietness 
of that inner sanctuary. What a symbol 
of the life, ^'hid with Christ in God''! 
'^In the secret of his tabernacle shall he 
hide me. '' Psa. 2"/ : 5. 

THE FURNITURE. 

I. The ark. Made of acacia wood. 
Least liable to decay. A type of the 
heart. Held the covenant of God. It 
shows that God has given His truth to 
remain, never to perish or fail. The 
laws of duty are everlasting. Holiness 
is taught forever. Jehovah, the God of 
promise, preserves His covenant to the 
end of days unfailing. 

The greatest one of the commandments 
Christ taught was the essence of all, 
loving God with all the heart and our 
neighbor as ourselves. Hence perfect 
love, found inside the ark, found in the 
heart, in the holiest of all. 

The ark was covered with gold — a sym- 
bol of purity and divine glory. Remember, 
it was inside the holy of holies. God puts 
the gold on the inside, not open to the 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 23 

and women like to adorn themselves with 
it for mntual admiration, so they string 
it around the neck, and hook it in the 
ears, and place it on the wrists and wear 
it on the fingers, and some classes of 
people go as far as to place their adorn- 
ments in their noses and lips. 

2. The golden pot with manna. This 
was inside the ark. A type of Christ 
inside the holiest of all. Christ dwell- 
ing in the heart by faith. Eph, j : ly. 
Christ is the bread of life. How near we 
are to Him when sanctified ! How we 
can daily feast on Him ! How the never 
failing manna is always present ! ^^ Ever- 
more give us of this bread." 

^'To him that overcometh will I give to 
eat of the hidden manna." Rev. 2 : ly. 

3. Aaron^s rod that budded. 

I. It signifies power. It swallowed up 
the other rods of the magicians. It waved 
over the Red Sea and the waters parted. 
It was in use when the Amalekites were 
defeated. It smote the rock, and there 
came forth the streams in the desert. 

Power. Nowhere has there been 
promised power outside the sanctified 



124 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

life. ^^ Ye shall receive power after that 
the Holy Ghost is come upon you.'' 
Power to work, power to testify, to live 
holy, to keep sweet, to do the will of God. 
It is found in the holy of holies. 

2. // signifies usefulness. Think of 
all those occasions for use. Even a stick, 
with God back of it, can be made of 
wondrous use. A holy life of usefulness. 
Let God be back of it, and He will turn 
it into channels of usefulness such as one 
never before thought of. A life that can 
swallow up all its foes ; that can come out 
more than conqueror in every battle of 
life ; that can reach the sea of difi&cul- 
ties and always find a way through ; 
that can find refreshing streams even in 
the midst of desert wastes. 

3. It means fragrance. It budded. 
The perfume must have filled the air. 
The fragrance of a holy life of useful- 
ness. How it permeates the rooms, 
ascends on high the savor of a sweet 
smell, spreads abroad and attracts the 
attention of all ! Fragrant with heavenly 
sweetness! It comes from the inner 
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4. It teaches fruztfulness. Buds pre- 
cede the fruit. The fruitful life, the 
sanctified life. ^' Fruit unto holiness, and 
the end everlasting life." Rom. 6:22. 
^' He purgeth it, that it may bring forth 
more fruit." y^o, 15:2, Power, useful- 
ness, fragrance and fruitfulness. Thank 
God for a place where these may abound. 

5. Mercy seat and ckerubims. On top 
of the ark. The mercy seat, typifying 
Christ. The two cherubims facing each 
other, with their wings touching over the 
mercy seat, showing the churches of the 
two dispensations meeting over the 
Lamb of God slain on the cross. On the 
mercy seat, under the wings of the 
cherubims, was the Shekinah, or presence 
of God. The place to meet God face to 
face was in the holy of holies. There is 
a place v/here we may dwell in the 
presence of God, where we may enjoy 
sweet communion at the mercy seat, and 
ever realize that we are abiding under the 
shadow of His wings. 

6. The golden censer. Paul infers 
that it was one of the articles in the holy 
of holies. The Old Testament description 



126 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

seems to leave this out. The probability is 
that it was just outside, in the holy place, 
and when the high priest comes in once a 
year, on the day of atonement, and with 
blood, he takes the ^'censer full of burn- 
ing coals of fire from off the altar before 
the Lord, and his hands full of sweet 
incense beaten small, and brings it within 
the veil.'' Lev, i6 : 12. He then puts 
the incense upon the fire and the cloud of 
it covers the mercy seat. We need the 
atoning blood when we come into the 
holy presence of God. We do not come 
in by works or growth, but by the blood. 
As the high priest placed the incense on 
the burning coals, and the smoke of it 
ascended up before the Lord, so ought we 
to pour out our lives before Him, that 
they may ascend in a savor of a sweet 
smell constantly in His presence. 

Everything in this sacred place seemed 
to represent light and life. The beauty 
of the sanctified experience is that it is so 
full of light and life. Walking in the 
beautiful light of God and having life 
^^more abundantly." The soul lighted 
by His indwelling presence, and fraught 



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witli the constant activities of a sanctified 
life. 

When the high priest entered behind 
the veil, he was confronted especially 
with two things, viz., the presence of 
God and the laws of duty, hidden in the 
ark. These laws were not staring him in 
the face as a burden to bear, but were 
hidden. Every sanctified soul realizes as 
never before, the presence of God and the 
laws of duty. These laws are not stand- 
ing out before him to make life a burden, 
but are hidden in his heart. "I will put 
my laws into their hearts, and in their 
minds will I write them." Notice this 
verse follows the experience of sanctifi- 
cation. Heb. 10 : 14-16. 

Let us observe the garments worn by 
the high priest on this occasion. He was 
to have on nothing but linen. Every- 
thing of a gaudy nature was laid off; 
all was now plain. How holiness strips 
one of the flashy dress, and brings one to 
the plain, simple manner of dreSvSing ; not 
the showy paraphernalia of a carnal 
world, but the simplicity of the Gospel. 
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128 HOI.INESS TYPOI.OGY 

person. '^No wool sliall come upon 
them; they shall not gird themselves 
with anything that causeth sweat." The 
linen illustrates the purity, the righteous- 
ness of the kingdom of God. The wool 
comes from the animal kingdom, and sig- 
nifies the flesh or carnal nature. In enter- 
ing into the holy of holies, every believer 
must lay aside everything of the carnal — 
all that causes friction in the Christian 
life ; all that causes one to chafe or sweat. 
^'Put off the old man with his deeds." 
Having made the double separation — 
separated from every carnal thing and 
separated unto the Lord wholly — let him 
now enter boldly ^4nto the holiest by the 
blood of Jesus." So ''let us draw near 
with a true heart, in full assurance of 
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from 
an evil conscience, and our bodies washed 
with pure water." Heb. 10:22. The 
Scripture, following this entrance into the 
holiest, related in the tenth of Hebrews, 
is very significant of one's duty follow- 
ing the experience of sanctification. 

I. What is the first duty after enter- 
ing the holiest? ''Let us hold fast the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 29 

profession of our faith without wavering.' ' 
Ver. 2 J. 

2. What else besides testimony ? 
*' And let us consider one another, to 
provoke unto love, and to good works." 
Ver. 24, 

3. The next step is to be careful and 
not neglect the means of grace in '^ the 
assembling of ourselves together." Ver. 
^5, and also in exhorting one another. 
Interested in getting others into the 
light. 

4. What is the great incentive for all 
this beautiful experience, testimony, work- 
ing, assembling, and exhorting? The 
coming of the Lord. ^'And so much the 
more as ye see the day approaching." 
Ver. ^5. The great preparation for life's 
work, death, the coming of the Lord, the 
day of judgment, and heaven, is holiness. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Solomon's temple and our body. 

" Know ye not that ye are the temple 
of God, and that the Spirit of God dwell- 
eth in you? 

^' If any man defile the temple of God, 
him shall God destroy : for the temple of 
God is holy, which temple ye are." / 
Cor. J : 1 6-1 J. 

'^What! know ye not that your body 
is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is 
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are 
not your own ? 

'^ For ye are bought with a price : 
therefore glorify God in your body, and 
in your spirit, which are God's." / Cor. 
6 : ig'2o. 

^'And what agreement hath the temple 
of God with idols ? for ye are the temple 
of the living God; as God hath said, I 
will dwell in them, and walk in them; 

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and I will be their God, and they shall be 
my people." 2 Cor. 6 : 16, 

Here, in Paul's teaching, we find a 
beautiful simile in which Solomon's 
temple is used as a type. From it we 
learn some valuable lessons on how to 
obtain the experience of holiness, and the 
work done in that experience. 

There are five important features in 
that beautiful temple and its dedication 
which pertain to our body and its entire 
consecration to God. 

I. The architectural plan. It consisted 
principallj^ of the wall, or outside 
structure, the holy place, and the most 
holy. This corresponds with our physi- 
cal, mental, and spiritual being. We 
have an outer wall — a corporeal nature, 
consisting of flesh, blood, and bones. We 
have a soul, in its technical sense, 
embracing our mental faculties, those 
faculties by which we learn of material 
and worldly things. The intellectual 
principle. Through it we get our educa- 
tion. Then the spirit, which would 
correspond with the most holy place, that 
which knows God and understands 



132 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

Spiritual things. It seems in many 
places in tlie Bible, that soul and spirit 
are used interciiangeably, yet, in reality, 
man is not a dual nature, but tripartite. 
Paul says : '' I pray God your whole 
spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved 
blameless." / Thess. 5 .• 2j. 

2. The temple dedicated. The time 
came when this wonderful structure was 
to be dedicated to God ; when human 
hands were to let go and God's sovereign 
ownership was to be recognized. In the 
sixth chapter of second Chronicles is the 
history of that great event. The people 
were gathered and great was the enthusi- 
asm, expectancy and blessing. 

There comes a time with the Lord's 
people when they hear the command for 
entire dedication or consecration of their 
bodies to the Lord. 

^'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by 
the mercies of God, that ye present your 
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable 
unto God, which is your reasonable 
service." Rom, 12 : i. This was written 
to ^'brethren," who knew the '^ mercies of 
God," and were ^^made alive from the 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 33 

dead;" hence were capable of making an 
acceptable ofifering. The body being 
mentioned here, makes the offering very 
tangible and real. 

3. The dedicatory prayer. In this 
prayer, found in second Chronicles, sixth 
chapter, we find four very important 
lessons in consecration : 

(a) Solomon ''stood before the altar ^^ 
Ver. 12. We come with our gift before 
the altar. Christ is our medium of 
approach to God. 

(b) He ''kneeled down upon his knees 
before all the congregation of Israeli Ver. 

Here is the attitude of humility, and 
that before all the people. 

The Lord is not confined to times or 
places, or attitudes, yet probably more 
people have received the filling of the 
Holy Ghost while kneeling than any 
other way. 

How hard it is for some to come out 
before all the ^'congregation of Israel,'' 
and kneel down and make a dedication of 
themselves to the Lord ! 

(c) He confessed God^s perfect faith- 
fulness. Ver. 14. 



134 HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY 

Reader, have you made an entire 
dedication of yourself to God? Why 
not? Can you not say that God has 
always been faithful ? His mercies have 
ever followed you. He has never failed 
you in any promise. If there has been 
failure anywhere, it has been with you. 

Now, believe Him to be true at this 
time of dedication and that He will 
surely accept your offering and purify 
your heart. 

(d) He calls upon God^ now to come in 
and take possession of the temple. Ver. 
41, 

There comes a time when the whole 
consecration is made, and the act of faith 
only is left to complete the work on our 
part, and the believer should throw wide 
open the door and say: '' Come in. Thou 
Heavenly Guest, and occupy my whole 
being, take complete possession, and 
have Thine own way." 

4. The result of the prayerful dedica- 
tion, ^^Now when Solomon had made an 
end of praying, the fire came down 
from heaven, and consumed the burnt 
offering and the sacrifices ; and the glory 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 135 

of the Lord filled the house.'' 2 Chron. 

Surely God is waiting to fill His 
temple. Like the air that presses out- 
side the vacuum fifteen pounds to the 
square inch, and would get in, if it had 
a chance, so the Lord is pressing His 
claims and will come in and fill us if we, 
by faithful dedication and trust, give Him 
an opportunity. Would not the light 
which shines outside a dark room rush 
in and drive out all the darkness if it 
could get a chance? Let the Sun of 
Righteousness come in and eliminate all 
that dark spot in your heart, where in- 
bred sin lies, and fill your being with His 
glory. God will not come into the heart 
to abide unless we entirely yield every- 
thing to Him and let Him cleanse us 
from depravity. Will He dwell where 
carnality is ? Let us treat Him with as 
much respect as we would a dentist. We 
say to the dentist, ^'I want that tooth 
filled with gold." The dentist proceeds 
and begins to dig out the decayed spot. 
You might say, '' Hold ! that hurts ; I 
want you to fill the tooth, not take my 



136 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

head off." Nay, but the filling must 
come along with the cleansing of that 
tooth, otherwise it would not abide, 
neither preserve it. Brother, be willing 
to undergo the crucifixion; let the old 
man die, otherwise you cannot expect to 
be filled with the Holy Spirit and be 
preserved. 

5. It was sanctified and watched over, 
''For now have I chosen and sanctified 
this house, that my name may be there 
forever: and mine eyes and mine heart 
shall be there perpetually." Ver. 16. 

So, when God accepts our offering. He 
sanctifies it. ''That the offering up of 
the Gentiles might be acceptable, being 
sanctified by the Holy Ghost." Rom. 
75 .• 16. And as the Lord said He would 
watch over that temple, so He will watch 
over us and will constantly be interested 
in us. Let us be very careful that we do 
not disappoint our Lord. 

If we are bought with a price, as the 
Scriptures afi&rm, then we should recog- 
nize the rightful owner. 

There is a sense in which we have 
nothing to give to God, for it is His 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY I37 

already. One may say he has ten 
thousand dollars, but ''the silver is 
mine, and the gold is mine, saith the 
Lord." Another says, ''I am rich in 
cattle," but '' the cattle on a thousand hills 
are mine," says the Lord. One may 
boast of his broad acres, but '' the earth 
is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." 
So our bodies are bought with a price 
and we should glorify God in them. 
And if we hold on to that which belongs 
to another party, we are robbers. '' Will a 
man rob God ? ' ' If, then, it belongs to 
God, he has a right to direct, and use it, 
keep it, dispose of it, and nothing else has 
a right to it without His consent. Then 
what right has one to defile it with 
tobacco, making a smoke-house of it 
instead of a temple; filling it with 
nicotine and rendering it unfit for service 
or occupancy ; allowing it to be a channel 
for lust; dressing it in a way w^hich is 
contrary to God's word; or feeding it 
with food or drink which in any manner 
hurts to the knowledge of the individual ? 
Again, ''what agreement hath the 
temple of God with idols ? " How would 



138 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

the idol Dagon look in God's temple ? Is 
tliere an idol in your heart ? Cast it out. 
Worship only God. Let Him occupy the 
whole being. A Hindoo, of high caste, 
wanted Christ to save him as he lay upon 
his deathbed. He willingly threw away 
all the cheap idols around the house, but 
no light came. Several days passed by 
and yet he was in darkness. Finally he 
called attention to a trunk or box in the 
comer of the room; said there was a 
little box down in the bottom of the 
larger one. He pulled out a small key 
from under his pillow and said it would 
open the little box. When opened, there 
was found a beautiful little golden god. 
When it was thrown away, the light 
broke in. 

*' The dearest idol I have known, 

Whatever that idol be, 
Help me to tear it from Thy throne, 

And worship only Thee.'' 

In looking at the experience of holiness 
from the standpoint of our bodies being 
the temples of the Holy Ghost, we find a 
beautiful harmony of all other Bible 
expressions of the experience. The 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 39 

baptism of tlie Holy Ghost is clearly 
understood. Dedicate tHe body to God 
and the glory of God will fill the being. 

What is perfect love? God is love, and 
if he fills us, we have perfect love, love 
without any alloy. What is heart purity ? 
When God comes in to fill us, all im- 
purity has to step out. Here we have 
an insight into sanctification. Sanctify 
means both to set apart and to make holy. 
We set ourselves entirely apart to the 
Lord; He accepts the gift and makes it 
holy. '' For the temple of God is holy, 
which temple ye are." / Cor.j://. 
Thus we find in this fact one of the 
highest expressions of holiness in God's 
word. 

Again, we find the mooted question of 
when we are sanctified settled in this 
type. 

1. Not in conversion, for the Apostle 
Paul urged the brethren to present their 
bodies a ^'living sacrifice." 

2. Not at death, for our bodies are to 
be the temples of God here, and we are to 
glorify God in them. 

3. Not gradually, by some process of 



I40 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

growth, for it is a gift to be received when 
our own gift is yielded entirely to the 
Lord. We cannot grow into a gift. 

4. But, instantaneously. ^' The Lord, 
whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his 
temple." Mal.j:i. 

god's dwelling place. 

The Lord has had three dwelling 
places on earth. The first was in the 
tabernacle, erected in the wilderness, and 
He took up His abode in the holy of 
holies. 

''Thou that dwellest between the 
cherubims, shine forth." Then the Lord 
told David: ''Why build ye not an 
house of cedar? " So, in time, the temple 
was built, and His second abiding place 
was in the temple. Where is it to-day ? 
The tabernacle has passed away. The 
temple is no more. Dear reader, if we, 
as the temple of the living God, do not let 
Him abide there. He will have no abiding 
place in this world. Oh, for the abiding 
of the Holy Ghost ! 

In closing this chapter, notice how 
holiness is imbedded in the expression of 
the body — the temple of God. In the 



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latter part of the sixtli chapter of 
the second epistle to the Corinthians is 
brought out the truth of God taking up 
His abode in us and our being separate 
from every unclean thing, and then is 
added, in the seventh chapter and first 
verse, which ought not to be separated 
from the preceding : '" Having therefore 
these promises, dearly beloved, let us 
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of 
the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in 
the fear of God^ 



CHAPTER IX. 

THE HOLY ANOINTING OIL. 

"And thou shalt make it an oil of liolj^ 
ointment, an ointment compound after 
tlie art of tlie apothecary : it shall be an 
holy anointing oil. 

"And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of 
the congregation therewith, and the ark 
of the testimony, 

"And the table and all his vessels, and 
the candlestick and his vessels, and the 
altar of incense, 

"And the altar of burnt oflfering with all 
his vessels, and the laver and his foot. 

"And thou shalt sanctify them, that 
they may be most holy: whatsoever 
toucheth them shall be holy. 

"And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his 
sons, and consecrate them, that they may 
minister unto me in the priest's office. 

"And thou shalt speak unto the children 
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of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy 
anointing oil unto me throtigliout your 
generations. 

^^Upon man's flesh shall it not be 
poured, neither shall ye make any other 
like it, after the composition of it : it is 
holy, and it shall be holy unto you. 

^^ Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or 
whosoever putteth any of it upon a 
stranger, shall even be cut off from his 
people. ' ' Exod, jo : 2^-jj . 

In this, one of the clearest of Old 
Testament symbols, we have consecra- 
tion, sanctification, and qualification. 

The act of anointing is emblematical 
of the sanctification or setting apart of 
that which is anointed, to the service of 
God, or to a holy use. At the inaugura- 
tion of the priests and kings, this anoint- 
ing oil was used, and also at the 
dedication of the tabernacle with its 
furniture, signifying the sacred or holy 
use to which they were consecrated. 

Christ is called the Messiah, which 
means the Anointed, and the nature of 
His anointing is clearly spiritual with 
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The anointing witH oil is manifestly a 
type of the anointing of the Holy Ghost 
and this is conferred upon Christians 
who will fulfill the conditions of such a 
work. ''But the anointing which ye 
have received of him abideth in you." 
I Jno. 2:2"/. 

As the articles or persons anointed in 
the Old Testament were thus consecrated 
to a holy use, and were brought in contact 
with the holiness of Jehovah, imparting 
to them a ceremonial holiness so as to fit 
them for holy ministrations, so, in this 
day, all Christians who will unreservedly 
consecrate themselves to the Lord may 
receive the unction or anointing of the 
Holy One, by which we are made par- 
takers of His holiness, and receive the 
spiritual qualification for service, ''sancti- 
fied, and meet for the master's use, and 
prepared unto every good work." 2 Tim. 
2:21. 

We will notice a few points in this 
type of full salvation. 

I. Anointing and sanctification are 
linked together. "iVnd he poured of the 
anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 45 

anointed him, to sanctify liim. Lev. 8:12. 

So was the tabernacle and its furniture 
anointed and sanctified. In the very act 
of anointing, the person or article was 
ceremonially sanctified. Thus, when we 
consecrate ourselves wholly to the Lord, 
we receive this gift of the Holy Spirit, or 
anointing, and by that heavenly process 
are in reality sanctified. 

Some may receive much more power 
for service than others, as God may see 
best, or can trust them with, yet all will 
receive more or less of this God-given 
preparation. 

Much has been said and written about 
the anointing and the power for service. 
And surely it takes the anointing to 
qualify one for service. Some would 
make it a third experience to be sought 
for after one is sanctified. We would not 
throw^ anything in the way of anybody 
getting all the power or anointing he can, 
but we would encourage all who are not 
satisfied with their experience, to intelli- 
gently look into God's word concerning 
all experiences and not be misled by 
others' teaching or experience. 



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Surely tlie disciples, on the day of 
Pentecost, received tlie anointing for 
service. We all agree they received tlie 
baptism of tlie Holy Ghost, which was 
the power from on high. Were they not 
sanctified then ? If not, when were they ? 
Sanctification to them and the anoint- 
ing came together. Again, Peter said 
Cornelius and his household received the 
Holy Ghost the same as they did on 
Pentecost, and further added, they were 
then purified in heart. Paul distinctly 
teaches that the qualification for service 
is sanctification. ^^If a man therefore 
purge himself from these, he shall be a 
vessel unto honor, sanctified^ and meet for 
the master's use, and prepared unto 
every good work." 2 Tim. 2 : 21. 

As we use what power God gives us. 
He will trust us with more, but He has 
no powder or grace to waste or to spoil us 
with. Some people, of course, have much 
more power when they get sanctified, 
than others. God may have different 
lines of work for them. All certainly 
have the Holy Ghost, but He may not 
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some as through others. We should 
completely abandon ourselves to Him, 
and let Him have His own way in every- 
thing, and then, as He can trust us, He 
will turn on the power. Everyone should 
be thoroughly saturated with the Holy 
Ghost. 

With this anointing the work will be 
more effective ; the words, how they will 
sink into the hearer's heart ! Without 
it the most eloquent words will fall to the 
ground futile, while with it even the 
^'unlearned and ignorant'' may awaken 
sinners to repentance and stir the hearts 
of their hearers. Oh, thou heavenly 
unguent, come and qualify us for life's 
blessed service, and make us indeed soul- 
winners. 

2. It was not to be poured upon 
the flesh or upon a stranger. The 
precious experience, of which the 
holy oil is a type, is not for the sinful 
state, or for fleshly lusts. Jesus said, 
concerning the gift of the Holy Ghost, 
''whom the world cannot receive." It is 
not for sinners. Sinners may receive 
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their sins. Believers may receive the 
anointing of the Holy Ghost by yielding 
all into His hands and taking Him by 
faith. It is not to be consumed upon 
our lusts. Some seem to want holiness 
that they may be happy. They want 
some other's experience. Get the Holy 
Ghost for purity and power, and then you 
will be happy and holy, and have an 
experience that will just fit your 
individual case. It is not another's 
experience that you need, any more than 
his nose on your face, or his head on your 
shoulders. The nose you have fits your 
face better than your neighbor's nose 
would, and what you need is not another's 
experience, but the same Holy Ghost. 
He will just fit your individual case and 
help you right where help is needed, and 
strengthen you where you are weak and 
gladden you when you are unhappy, and 
will supply your every need. 

3. // was not to be imitated. God's 
special command was for the people not 
to compound any like it. Surely this 
teaches us that in this heavenly and holy 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 49 

counterpart. It comes from heaven. It 
is purely God-ordained and God-given. 
It cannot come from earth by heredity, 
training, education, or culture. All these 
are good, but one may have them all, and 
lack this gift of God. But imitations do 
exist, or rather experiences purporting to 
be this ^^ power." Wild-fire, fanaticism, 
ignis fatuus lights, saying ^'Lo here and 
lo there," draw some from the true course 
and wreck their usefulness, if not their 
souls. 

The line of high spirituality and 
fanaticism may run close together, and 
one should closely watch and know that 
the Spirit, word, and providence of God 
concur before running after new things. 
God says,'^Grow in grace and knowledge." 
But he that simply grows in grace and not 
in knowledge, will soon turn into a fana- 
tic. Holiness has suffered in many 
localities by those who have shot off on 
tangents and tried to imitate this holy 
anointing. 

4. It was holy unto the Lord. It is not 
for man's pleasure or secular profit. 
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right, if only tlie glory of God is in view. 
But witli some does it not savor of the 
secular? Do they not want to be some- 
body? How mucb they could do if they 
only bad tbe power! Wbat great men 
tbey might be! Beware of the Simon 
Magus kind. This blessing is not for 
common use ; only for God's glory. 

5. Specific directions are given by the 
Lord in regard to its obtainment and use. 
The Lord has not left us in the dark, to 
follow some cunningly devised fable, but 
has given clear, special teaching on the 
obtainment of this full salvation, and how 
to keep it. Will not the reader search 
the Scriptures and get the rich blessing 
from the Divine chemistry ? 

6. It was always to be throughout 
their generations and always the same. 
Holiness unchangeable and forever! 
'^Holiness becometh thine house, O 
Lord, for ever." Psa. pj ,-5. This is the 
Holy Ghost dispensation. It was ushered 
in by the Pentecostal anointing. Heaven 
is interested in its continuance through- 
out our generations. Shall we perpetuate 
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into disuse! Thank God, in these last 
days it is being revived and the holy 
oil is being poured in rivers of blessings, 
bringing joy, and gladness, and victory, 
and glory to multitudes. 

7. It was fragrant. What a lasting 
perfume must have come with that holy 
ointment! Would we have our lives 
fragrant, throwing out the sweetness of 
love and filling our surroundings with 
the perfume of purity? Get the anoint- 
ing of the Holy Ghost. Let its aroma 
dwell in your hearts, abide in your home, 
fill all the neighborhood, and permeate 
the church. 

8. // makes the face to shine and 
brings gladness. No more long faces 
darkened by the cloud of discontent, sad- 
dened by the sorrows of sin, but effulgent 
with the upper-world glory, bright with 
the beauty of holiness. '^ Oil to make 
his face to shine." 

Heavenly anointing! May the fresh 
oil daily gladden our hearts, strengthen 
our faith, purify our hearts, and qualify 
us for the Master's service. 



CHAPTER X. 

THE NAZARITE. 

^^And tlie Lord spake unto Moses, say- 

^^Speak unto the children of Israel, and 
say unto them, When either man or 
woman shall separate themselves to vow 
a vow of a Nazarite, to separate them- 
selves unto the Lord : 

'^ He shall separate himself from wine 
and strong drink, and shall drink no 
vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong 
drink, neither shall he drink any liquor 
of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. 

'^ AH the days of his separation shall he 
eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, 
from the kernels even to the husk. 

^'All the days of the vow of his separa- 
tion there shall no razor come upon his 
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Lord, lie shall be holy, and shall let the 
locks of the hair of his head grow. 

^^A.11 the days that he separateth him- 
self unto the Lord, he shall come at no 
dead body. 

''He shall not make himself unclean 
for his father, or for his mother, for his 
brother, or for his sister, when they die : 
because the consecration of his God is 
upon his head. 

''All the days of his separation he is 
holy unto the Lord." Num, 6:1-8, 

This is a striking, typical representa- 
tion of a holy life. It shows a practical 
symbol of that double separation coinci- 
dent with a life fully devoted to God. 
Surely, a symbol thus regulated by the 
Lord must have made a profound 
impression upon all its participants. In 
it we can see clearly set forth the leading 
features of a consecrated life. 

This life was the freewill choice of the 
individual, thus producing an interesting 
type of a holy life, which is the voluntary 
choice of the child of God. 

The Nazariteship involved three things : 

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vine and strong drink. The intoxicating 
quality of the grape that gets such a hold 
on the man is a proper representative of 
sin, which has such a deadly grasp upon 
the sinner, which so unbalances and 
corrupts the soul. 

Therefore every part of the vine is thus 
prohibited — analogous with the prohi- 
bition of sin in every detail. A slight 
voluntary deviation from God's will proves 
a corrupt heart as clearly as a greater sin. 
God does not let down the bars and per- 
mit one to sin *^ just a little." One may 
deviate from the perfect law in his 
ignorance and not break the connection 
with heaven, but to voluntarily step aside 
in the smallest detail, brings guilt and 
condemnation. 

2. Refraining from cutting the hair. 
It seems that the growth of the beard 
indicates manhood, and the unshorn head 
signifies strength. Samson was strong 
till his hair was shorn. The voluntary 
refraining from cutting the hair, then, 
would signify the constant yielding to 
God of all our redeemed powers, and the 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 55 

consecrated life. Samson was a Naza- 
rite unto God from his birth. The Spirit 
of the Lord came upon him mightily. 
Mighty were his deeds of strength and 
valor. If we want the Spirit of the Lord 
to come upon us mightily, enabling us to 
'^do exploits," we must dedicate all our 
powers unreservedly to Him and let Him 
come into our hearts and lives and con- 
trol and use us. The association of man- 
hood in the Nazarite presents to us the 
thought of perfection in the Christian 
life. Some are yet babes, and ^^have need 
of milk, and not of strong meat." "But 
strong meat belongeth to them who are 
of full age." (Margin, perfect.) Heb. 

3. Avoiding every contact with dead 
bodies. Dead bodies are the victims of 
death. Death carries with it a separa- 
tion. Here it is the separation from life. 
The body separated . from the spirit. 
Contact with the dead brought ceremonial 
defilement. 

Everything separated from God is 
dead. Sinners are "dead in trespasses 
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156 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

pleasures, positions, everything that has 
not the life of God in it is dead. The 
true Nazarite must be free from them all. 
A business not sanctioned by the Lord 
must be avoided. Pleasures not for the 
glory of His name are not innocent. 
Institutions not actuated by the will of 
God must be denied. Here we might 
mention the affiliation with secret fra- 
ternities which involve an unequal 
yoking together with unbelievers. Are 
you mixed up with secret societies ? 
*^Come out from among them," ^^ there is 
death in the pot." Surely the spiritual 
Nazarite will avoid such contact with the 
dead. '' Let the dead bury their dead," 
but let the consecrated child of God 
devote himself to the service of the living 
God. The word Nazarite means, ^^one 
separated." Let us thus be separated. 

The Nazariteship further symbolizes 
the sanctified life : 

First. In its double separation. 

He was not only separated yr^^;;^ certain 
things, but he was separated unto the 
Lord. Every sanctified child of God is 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 57 

trayed in Rom. 12 : 1^2. He is separated 
entirely from the world, and entirely unto 
the Lord. Presented unto the Lord and 
nonconformed to the world. 

Second. ^^All the days of his separation 
he is holy unto the Lord.^^ 

God pronounced him holy so long as 
this double separation continued. 

Just so long as we voluntarily keep 
ourselves entirely dedicated to the Lord 
and separated from all that God forbids, 
we retain holiness. May it ever abide. 

Third. If^ by any means ^ this Nazarite- 
ship should be broken^ a way was provided 
for his return and purification. 

Many ask the question, ^'If one lose 
the experience of holiness, can it be 
obtained again?" Thank God, in the 
divine economy, if one should forfeit this 
blessed life, he may find his way back. 
It is a sad and very dangerous thing to 
so act, or fail to act, that one should lose 
the experience of purity ; but in the good- 
ness and mercy of God, he need not 
utterly perish, but return in God's 
appointed way, and receive again the 
blessed seal of divine approval. 



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Reader, are you cut loose from all 
known sin, devoting all your redeemed 
powers to God, living apart from every- 
thing that has not the life of God in it ? 
Are you fully separated in that double 
sense, and enjoying the blessed fullness 
of a holy life? Are you a spiritual 
Nazarite ? 



CHAPTER XI. 

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. 

Lev. 2^, 

Every fiftieth, year, on tlie day of 
atonement, after sending away the scape- 
goat into the desert, there was ushered in 
by the blowing of the trumpet all over 
the land, the year of jubilee. This was a 
season of great rejoicing and multiplied 
blessings to the people. 

It shadowed forth the great double 
work of salvation through our Savior. 
This is the time which is spiritualized in 
prophecy in Isaiah 6i : 1^2^ and to prove 
that it was typical of Christian experi- 
ence, we need only to refer to Luke ^ : //- 
21, ''And there was delivered unto him 
(Jesus) the book of the prophet Esaias. 
And when he had opened the book, he 
found the place where it was written, 

''The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, 

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because lie hath anointed me to preach 
the gospel to the poor ; he hath sent me 
to heal the brokenhearted, to preach 
deliverance to the captives, and recovering 
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them 
that are bruised, 

^'To preach the acceptable year of the 
Lord. ^ * ^ 

''This day is this scripture fulfilled 
in your ears." 

Christ made atonement for us on 
the cross, bearing the sins and depravity 
of the whole world, and then said, 
''It is finished." And now it should 
be sounded all over the world that liberty, 
and blessing, and rest, and holiness have 
been purchased, and every one should 
avail himself of this blood-bought jubilee. 

The twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus 
clearly sets this figure before us, from 
which we draw two very important 
lessons. Two classes of people derived 
rich blessings from the heaven-appointed 
jubilee, and each typical of two classes 
to-day. 

We will first notice those who were in 
trouble and bondage. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY l6l 

1. Captives set free. The prison doors 
were opened and all captives stepped out 
into the sunlight of liberty. 

Christ has come to set the captives 
free. Through the atonement every 
imprisoned sinner has a right to step out 
into his heaven-bought liberty. 

2. Slaves were emancipated. Those 
who were in bitter servitude could now be 
free from their bondage, and enjoy per- 
sonal freedom. 

Thank God for an emancipation pro- 
clamation issued eighteen hundred years 
ago, giving every slave of the devil an 
opportunity to step out of his shackles 
and breathe the pure air of freedom. Yet, 
how many there are who continue in 
their slavery, the servants of sin and 
Satan, not accepting their liberty when 
offered them ! 

3. Debtors were freed from debt. The 
tight hand of the oppressor was loosened 
and the debtor could now breathe freely. 

Who could pay his debts to God ? Who 
could satisfy the demands of justice? 
Were it not for our spiritual jubilee, who 
could hope to get out of such debt? 



1 62 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

Sinners sometimes boast of their 
morality, and among their righteous 
deeds they claim to pay their debts. 
But do they? Every day deepens their 
debt to God. They do not pay it ; they 
cannot pay it. So we are taught to pray 
'^forgive us our debts." Turn the debt 
over to God, confess your inability 
to extricate yourself from sin and plead 
His pardoning mercy, and God will look 
down upon you through Christ, and for- 
give. The question frequently arises, 
^'How can God be just and at the same 
time, justify the sinner?" 

A certain judge had a man brought 
before him for an offense. The man proved 
to be a friend of his. His heart naturally 
went out for him, and he fain v/ould have 
released the prisoner. But it was not a 
question of his desires, it was one of 
justice. He fined him to the full extent 
of the law and then turned around and 
paid it himself. The penalty has been 
placed upon sin, but Christ paid it in His 
own death. But even that will not avail 
the sinner anything unless he claims his 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 63 

4. A glad home-retummg of those 
separated from their families. Those who, 
by reason of servitude, were kept from 
home, had now an opportunity of return- 
ing. 

Wanderer from the Father's house, 
did you know that we were in the year of 
jubilee, and that you have a right to return 
to the parental roof from which you 
wandered? Come back to the family of 
God, for He is married to the backslider. 

While this figure teaches us the bless- 
ings that come to the sinner through the 
atonement of Christ, it also prefigures the 
sanctified life in store for those who have 
been released from the thraldom of sin. 

There were those who were not in 
bondage, yet who had the fullness of the 
jubilee blessing. 

We find that as there were four distinct 
features in connection with those in 
bondage, there are also four important 
illustrative truths symbolizing the sancti- 
fied life. 

I. It was a year of holiness. '^For it 
IS the jubilee; it shall be holy unto yoi:." 
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purchased forgiveness, but holiness. 
'^Wherefore Jesus also, that lie might 
sanctify the people with his own blood, 
suffered without the gate." Heb. ij : 12. 

2. // was a year of rest. Rest for the 
land, rest for man and beast. How 
significant of the ^'rest" spoken of in the 
fourth chapter of Hebrews ! Rest from 
all the uprisings of carnality. Rest from 
the worrying cares of life. Rest from all 
our doubts and fears. Rest, sweet rest. 

3. A year of fullness and satisfaction. 
^' And ye shall eat your fill." Lev. 2^ : ig. 
A type of full salvation. ''That ye 
might be filled with all the fullness of 
God." Eph. J .• /p. '' For he satisfieth the 
longing soul, and filleth the hungry 
soul with goodness." Psa. loy : g. 

4. Inheritances restored. ''In the year 
of this jubilee ye shall return every man 
unto his possession." Lev. 2^ :ij. That 
property which was lost through mis- 
fortune was restored, and every man 
could, after being liberated, receive his 
possession. 

Here we find the symbol of the "second 
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HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 65 

free first before they received their 
restored inheritances. 

Thank God for a present restoration of 
our inheritance ! We have a right to 
claim our inheritance which, through the 
fall, was lost and through Christ is 
regained. '^In whom (Christ) we have 
obtained an inheritance." Eph. i : 11. 

''That they may receive forgiveness of 
sins, and inheritance among them which 
are sanctified by faith that is in me." 
Acts 26:18. First forgiveness, then 
inheritance with the sanctified. 

But who gets the inheritance? The 
heirs, of course. Then be sure that you 
are first a child of God, a proper heir. 
Prove your identity as an heir and then 
claim your part in the inheritance. 

This blessing of the year of holiness, 
the year of rest, of fullness and satisfac- 
tion, was for all the people ; for those who 
were in bondage before, as well as those 
who were not in bondage. But all who 
were in prison had first to be set free; 
those in slavery must first be liberated ; 
those in debt must have their debts can- 
celed, and those away from home must 
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1 66 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

So tlie blessing of sanctification is for 
all the people ; but before the sinner can 
receive this holiness, and rest, and 
fullness, he must first be set free from his 
imprisonment and slavery, he must have 
his debt of sin blotted out. If he is a 
backslider, he must first come back 
to God and God's family. Then may one 
expect to enter in upon the life and bless- 
ing of the jubilee of full salvation. 



CHAPTER XII. 

THE EDENIC STREAM. 

''And the Lord God planted a garden 
eastward in Eden j ^ ^' * And a river 
went out of Eden to water the garden : 
and from thence it was parted, and 
became into four heads. The name of 
the first is Pison: * * * And the 
name of the second river is Gihon : ^ ^ 
^ ^ And the name of the third river is 
Hiddekel : ^ ^ * And the fourth river 
is Euphrates." Gen. 2 :8-i4. 

This beautiful garden of the Lord, from 
which gushed forth the fourfold stream 
to water not only the garden, but the 
surrounding country, symbolizes the 
experience of full salvation. 

Isaiah prophesied that the Lord would 
make the wilderness of Zion like Eden, 
and her desert like the garden of the 
Lord. Isa, 5/ : j. 

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He also prophesied : ^^And thou shalt 
be like a watered garden, and like a 
spring of water, whose waters fail not." 
Isa. ^8 : II. 

Paul says: ^^Ye are God's husbandry." 
(Margin, tillage.) / Cor. j : g. 

Literally, it is God's farm, or garden. 
Every Christian should be the Lord's 
garden. From the garden of Bden flowed 
the great fourfold stream of refreshing 
waters, so symbolical of the outflow of the 
sanctified life. '^He that believeth on 
me, as the scripture hath said, out of 
his belly shall flow rivers of living 
water. But this spake he of the Spirit, 
which they that believe on him should 
receive." Jno. 7 cjS^jg. 

This upspringing, outgushing, over- 
flowing experience is what tells on the 
thirsty world around us, and waters the 
dry and dreary desert wastes. 

Sanctification is the river experience. 

^'There is a river, the streams (like the 
Eden streams) whereof shall make glad 
the city of God." Psa. 46 : 4. 

'^And a man shall be * * * as 
rivers of water in a dry place." Is a. 
32:2. 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 69 

This Eden stream was one stream, but 
soon spread out in different directions. 
Sanctification starts in witli the individ- 
ual, but cannot be self-contained. It must 
be a blessing to others. It must branch 
out. 

The Eden stream spread into four 
great rivers, and watered four great 
countries. The number four seems to be 
the human number, and represents man- 
kind. We read of the ^' four quarters of 
the earth," z. ^., the people everywhere. 
Thus our experience is not to be self- 
centered, but should spread out to the 
people, to the four quarters of the earth. 
We should be witnesses in Jerusalem 
(at home) and to the uttermost part of 
the earth. Holiness consists of purity 
and power. Purity for the individual. But 
shall it stop there? No. Branch out 
and be a blessing to mankind. Purity 
for me, and power so I can reach others. 
Some people make a great mistake, and 
are apt to get a very selfish experience. 
They look only for the purity, the cleans- 
ing ; while they should also have in mind 
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170 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

baptism of the Holy Spirit, which pro- 
duces purity, and thus be qualified to flow 
out, like Eden's rivers, and water the 
barren wastes all around. 

These four rivers are very significant 
in their names. 

I. PISON. 

Pison signifies over flowing^ freely flow- 
ing^ flowing stream. It is the over- 
flowing experience that blesses the world. 
David said: ^^My cup runneth over." He 
had the Pison experience. If our cup 
never runs over, we will never amount to 
much in saving the world. 

2. GIHON. 

Gihon means, gushing forth^ breaking 
forth^ as from a fountain. Here we have 
the out gushing of holy raptures, as if the 
pent-up emotions of the soul could not be 
contained, but must break forth in song 
and shout, and heavenly laughter. Isaiah 
says to "cry out and shout." David 
gives license to leap, and dance, and clap 
our hands, and sing, and praise. Let 
Gihon come forth! "Quench not the 
spirit." The world and the church need 
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it will Stagnate; let it out, and it will 
water your soul, and the country around. 

3. HIDDEKEL. 
Hiddekel denotes activity^ rapidity. 

Holiness sets things in motion, rapid 
motion. Activity characterizes the sancti- 
fied life. When Isaiah got the blessing 
he said: "Here am I, Lord, send me." 
Paul traversed land and sea. Even 
the lay members, after Pentecost, 
"went everywhere, preaching the word." 
Brother, have you Hiddekel' s stream 
running through your soul ? or have you a 
sit-down-and-do-nothing religion ? When 
one gets sanctified, he can work faster, 
walk faster, and believe faster. It sets in 
motion every power of his spiritual being ; 
his eyes are quick to see, his ears quick 
to hear, his tongue quick to speak, his 
hands, and feet, and brain, and all, are 
ready to do and go at his Master's bid- 
ding. 

Come thou, heavenly Hiddekel, and 
make me more active and rapid in the 
things of the Lord. 

4. EUPHRATES. 
Euphrates carries the idea of sweetness 



172 HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY 

2LrA fertility^ as ^^ sweet water '' and ^^ fertile 
river.^^ In this we find shadowed forth 
the sweetness and fertility of the sancti- 
fied life. A sour holiness is a sham 
holiness. And a holiness that does not 
bring forth frnit is a nonentity. This is 
the greatest stream of the four. In fact, 
sometimes, instead of mentioning the 
name, it is simply called '^the river,'' as 
^^from the desert unto the river." It 
does not imply that there are not other 
rivers, but this is the greatest, the most 
important. 

Holiness is expressed by different 
terms. We read of ''the promise of the 
Father.'' Not that there is no other 
promise, but this promise of the Holy 
Ghost is the greatest, it is THE promise. 
Oh, for the baptism of sweetness, that 
shall flow out from our lives, and bring 
forth fruit unto holiness! Let the 
Euphrates flow through you, and over 
you, and around you, and from you, and 
out into this dark world. 

May heaven's fourfold current of full 
salvation overflow our souls, and burst 
forth from our hearts, and set the wheels 



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of our being in rapid activity, and pre- 
serve VLB in the sweetness of perfect love, 
and thns enable ns to bring forth frnit 
abnndantly ! 



CHAPTER XIII. 

PENTECOST REQUISITES. 

^' Seven weeks shalt thou number unto 
thee: begin to number the seven weeks 
from such time as thou beginnest to put 
the sickle to the corn. 

^'And thou shalt keep the feast of 
weeks unto the Lord thy God with a 
tribute of a freewill offering of thine 
hand, which thou shalt give unto the 
Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy 
God hath blessed thee : 

^'And thou shalt rejoice before the 
Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy 
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy 
maidservant, and the Levite that is within 
thy gates, and the stranger, and the 
fatherless, and the widow, that are among 
you, in the place which the Lord thy God 
hath chosen to place his name there. 

'^And thou shalt remember that thou 

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wast a bondman in Egypt." Deut. 
16 :g-i2. 

On that memorable occasion when tbe 
faithful few were assembled with one 
accord in the upper room in Jerusalem, 
words were uttered which were never 
recorded, thoughts which never found 
their way to print, and actions which 
never came into the annals of religion. 
But they spoke, and thought, and acted. 
If we should attempt to put into writing 
to-day some of their unrecorded thoughts 
and words, would the reader think it all 
conjecture? Let us see if the Bible will 
sustain us in approximating such a thing. 
We are sure that their custom was 
constantly to call attention to all the 
Scripture bearing upon those immediate 
times and occasions. They were always 
on the alert for such Scriptures. While 
in that upper room, Peter called their 
attention to two portions of the Psalms, 
bearing upon the case of Judas. 

May we not suppose that such a train 
of thought and expression as this might 
have come from Peter? 

^^Men and brethren, we are here with 



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one accord in this npper room, in 
obedience to the command of our risen 
Lord. We are tarrying for the express 
purpose of receiving the promise of the 
Father : the power from on high. This is 
the very time of year for the feast of 
Pentecost ; it is almost upon us. The 
Scriptures teach us, in connection with 
that event, that we should come with a 
freewill offering and give it unto the 
Lord, according as He hath blessed us. 
This baptism of the Holy Ghost, for 
which we are praying and waiting, must 
be received upon conditions. We need 
not expect it unless we fulfill this Pente- 
cost injunction, and thus give ourselves 
entirely into His hands, a whole freewill 
offering, to be, to do, to suffer; to go 
anywhere, to do anything, to be anything, 
to say anything, to suffer anything for 
Him. Let us then make such a dedica- 
tion of ourselves forever into His hands, 
in accordance with this Scripture, that we 
may thus have faith which will secure for 
us this precious gift." It is very probable 
that their thoughts were directed to the 
Scriptures of Deuteronomy, sixteenth 



HOIvINESS TYPOI.OGY 1 77 

chapter, bearing upon tlie occasion of 
Pentecost, seeing that they were upon 
the very threshold of that event. And 
they certainly did give themselves a 
willing offering to the Lord, or they 
never would have received the gift of the 
Holy Ghost. If one to-day will follow 
the spiritual application of the Pentecost 
injunction, he will as surely have a per- 
sonal Pentecost as that God exists. 

This offering, at the feast of weeks, is 
a most perfect and fitting type of our offer- 
ing for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
As we present the details of this service, 
if you, reader, have not already fulfilled it, 
will you not do it as you read? 
I. THE OFFERING. 

I. It was a freewill offering. ^^And 
thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto 
the Lord thy God with a tribute of a 
freewill offering." God loves a freewill 
offering, a freewill service. 

^' Who then is willing to consecrate his 
service this day unto the Lord?" / 
Chron, 2g : ^. 

We are told in Psalms 110:3 (R. V.) 
that the Lord's people shall be ^'freewill 
offerings" in the day of His power. 



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When one performs a service willingly 
and joyfnlly lie will do it better, and 
more of it. 

We heard of a farmer who would not 
hire a man except he was a whistler. A 
man who whistled was cheerful, and a 
cheerful man would do better service 
than one who was not. A tailor had 
several employes at work. A man next 
door was accustomed to play the violin. 
He noticed that when the violinist played 
quick, lively, cheerful music, the men 
worked quickly and lively, but when he 
played slow and dirge-like tunes the men 
worked accordingly. So the violinist 
was hired to play quick music, that the 
men might bring in better returns. The 
cheerful, freewill service is the only 
acceptable kind with the Lord. 

2. // was to be a sufficient offering. 
The word ''tribute" reads in the margin, 
''sufl&ciency." Thus, we see that it was 
to be sufi&cient. Insufficient offerings do 
not bring Pentecost. Keeping back part 
of the price will keep back the Holy 
Ghost and put death in His place. God 
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Many inquire how one can tell when all 
is given up. If you do not know that all 
is given up it is because it is not all given 
up. 

If I knew I had only ten dollars, and 
desired to give it to a friend, with all 
future money I might receive, I certainly 
could tell if I gave it away and also 
signed a contract concerning the future. 
First, give all you can think of. Say, 
''Here, Lord, I dedicate to Thee my hands 
to work for Thee, and minister to the 
good of others ; to write letters, to give 
tracts, to shake hands to the glory of 
God. Here are my feet, to walk in Thy 
ways, to run on missions of mercy, to 
carry glad news to the perishing. My 
eyes, to be single to Thy glory, to watch 
for opportunities for Christian service. 
My ears, to hear for Thee, to hear Thy still 
small voice directing me in the right way. 
My voice, to speak for Thee, to witness 
for Thee, to be used in Thy service in 
public and private, to speak and pray in 
public, to be the mouthpiece of the Lord. 
My talents for Thee; they shall not be 
wrapped up in a napkin, but occupied for 



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the Lord. My time, to be spent in a 
manner pleasing to Thee. My money, to 
be used only with Thy approbation. My 
reputation in Thy hands, not what will 
the people think of me, but what Thou 
wilt think. My will yielded to Thee. 
Thy will and not mine be done. Thy 
will concerning my family, my friends, 
my property, my future, my all. All I 
can think of I yield to Thee, my whole 
body, soul, and spirit, to be forever Thine. 
In addition to this, O Lord, I yield to 
Thee all I cannot think of. All that may 
come up in the future, whether it be joy 
or sorrow, prosperity or adversity, health 
or sickness, gain or loss, life or death. 
Lord, I subscribe to Thy will to the end 
of my days." Reader, you will find that 
this unknown bundle in your offering will 
prove to be larger than the known ; but 
yield all, and when it is sufficient you will 
have the conscious assurance of that fact. 
May the Holy Spirit now help you to 
make a sufficient freewill offering. 

3. // was an offering given unto the 
Lord, *' Which thou shalt give unto the 
Lord thy God." The proper consecration 



HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY l8l 

is a dedication unto the Lord, instead of 
unto some institution or service. Some 
consecrate themselves to the ministry, 
some to missionary work, some to tem- 
perance work, or to the church. All this 
may be very well, but there is a far better 
and a more Scriptural method of consecra- 
tion, and that is, ''unto the Lord." 
'' But yield yourselves unto God." Rom. 
6:ij, ''Present your bodies a living 
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God." 
Rom. 12 : 1. "But gave their own selves 
to the Lord." 2 Cor. 8:3. "Now the 
body is for the Lord." / Cor. 6 : ij. 
" Glorify God in your body, and in your 
spirit, which are God's." / Cor. 6:20. 
"And who then is willing to consecrate 
his service this day unto the Lord?" 
I Chron. 2g: ^. There is a wide differ- 
ence between consecrating unto the Lord 
and to the Lord's service. The first is to 
a person, the latter to a work. The first 
is good in sickness or health, ability for 
work or inability ; the latter is good while 
health or ability remains to perform 
service. If one is simply consecrated to 
the Lord's service, the time may come 



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when lie cannot serve; lie may be upon 
some bed of affliction, and unable to per- 
form any service, but if lie be consecrated 
unto tbe Lord, he is all the Lord's and 
still in His hands and on His hands 
whether he can work or not, and the Lord 
must look out for him. Reader, give 
yourself entirely to God — a sufficient 
freewill offering, and He will place you in 
that service where you can best glorify 
Him, whether it be in the ministry, 
missionary work, or any other good work, 
and rest assured you will be on His hands 
to care for you and keep you through to 
the end. 

4. // was to be according to ability^ or as 
the Lord had blessed them. ^ ^According as 
the Lord thy God hath blessed thee." How 
good God is ! He never requires impossi- 
bilities. His commands never transcend 
our ability to perform. No one can yield 
to Him more than he has, and the Lord 
does not require more. One may give to 
God much more than another, but only be- 
cause he is able; he has been blessed more. 
In the Jewish offerings, if one were able 
to offer a bullock, a bullock he must offer, 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 83 

and could not be released by offering a 
goat. If only able to offer a goat or a 
sheep, that he must offer, and could not 
beg off with turtle doves. But any one 
could afford doves or pigeons, for he could 
go out and catch them, and the Lord 
required so much from all. Each one as 
he is able. When the Magi presented to 
the child Jesus their gifts of gold, frank- 
incense, and myrrh, it was the products 
of their own country. What the Lord had 
favored or blessed them with, those things 
they honored Him with. So we are to 
yield to the Lord the products of our own 
being. What He has favored or blessed us 
with, these things we must honor Him 
with, by making Him a present of them. 
Has He blessed you with a body, dedicate 
it to Him to be the temple of the Holy 
Ghost. Has He blessed you with feet, walk 
in His ways. Has He blessed you with 
hands, use them in His service; eyes, 
have them single to His glory; ears, 
have them open to His voice ; tongue, be 
thou His mouthpiece, and speak only 
as pleaseth Him. Have you talents, 
^^occupy them till He come." Have you 



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this world's goods, ^^ honor the Lord with 
thy substance." Does He bless you with 
more time, '^ redeem it, for the days are 
evil." Has He given you a will, swing 
it over into His loving will, and say, 
"Thy will be done." Have you a mind 
to think, then "think on these things." 
We have no right to do as we please with 
ourselves. We should recognize God's 
ownership and let Him possess us and 
manipulate our lives as pleaseth Him. 
He has a right to us. What one has 
bought and paid for he has a right to. 
Christ has bought us and paid the price 
in His own precious blood. Therefore, 
Christ has a right to us. Shall we with- 
hold from Him His rights? "Will a 
man rob God?" Reader, give God a 
chance with you and the heavenly baptism 
will come sure and soon. 

II. MANNER OF OFFERING. 

I. They were to come with rejoicing. 
"And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord 
thy God." This was literally true with 
the disciples tarrying at Jerusalem. They 
"returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 
and were continually in the temple. 



HOI.INESS TYPOLOGY 1 85 

praising and blessing God." Luke 24 : 52^ 
5j>. In observing this feast of weeks 
the Jews could well rejoice over tbree 
things : The past ; for God's great deliver- 
ance from Egypt, His care over them all 
along the way, and His continual out- 
stretched hand of blessing. They could 
rejoice in the present, for their being 
spared, and for God's mercies, material 
and spiritual, and for a God who was 
interested in their behalf. And also over 
the future, for the blessings in store for 
them, and which God had promised. So 
with the believer seeking his Pentecost. 
He should come rejoicing over the past, 
to think of his great deliverance from his 
sins, the blessings which God has 
showered upon him all along the path of 
life. He should rejoice over the present, 
to know that God has spared him to see 
this day, and to know that up to this date 
he is still trusting his Savior. He should 
rejoice over the future, to think of the 
great fullness of God which he is now 
going to receive by faith, and for the life 
of more usefulness he will necessarily 
see. 



1 86 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

2. They were to come with love. One 
common rejoicing together. Love to 
son, daughter, servant, Levite, stranger, 
orphan, and widow. No enemies, no hard 
feelings, no grudges, all on good terms. 
Reader, if you ever expect God's favor 
you must forever cease thinking evil of 
your neighbor. No man can be right 
with the Lord and wrong with his 
neighbor. You cannot be in with Him 
and out with another. Be sure that you 
love everybody before you come expect- 
ing the Pentecostal baptism. 

3. They were to come with hM7nility. 
*'And thou shalt remember that thou 
wast a bondman in Egypt." This cer- 
tainly was enough to keep them humble. 
Slaves in Egypt, and would have been 
slaves yet but for Jehovah's outstretched 
arm. Remember, do not be boastful or 
proud. What you are, and where you 
are as a Christian, is only through the 
Great Deliverer. So we are to come 
humbly. We are to remember our 
thraldom in the devil's kingdom. And 
we would have been there yet had not 
Christ delivered us. All we are in our 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 1 87 

present state, is only througli Him. We 
have notHng to boast of except through 
Him. Evermore keep us humble. 
III. THE STATE OF HEART. 

This must not be overlooked. They 
were out of Egypt. They had been freed 
from bondage. 

No one can receive the Pentecostal bless- 
ing till he is first out of Egypt; or, in other 
words, first regenerated. The disciples at 
Jerusalem were converted prior to Pente- 
cost. Do unsaved people have great joy, 
and continually praise and bless God? 
Christ said in John //, that the Father 
had given them to Him and they had 
kept His word. That they were not of 
the world, and because of that the world 
hated them. That none of them was lost 
but Judas, and if one is not lost he must 
be saved. Surely the disciples were out 
of Egypt. And, reader, before you can 
hope for a personal Pentecost, you must 
know first that you have a clear evidence 
of your acceptance with God, in the 
pardon of your sins. Settle first your 
identity as a child of God if you want to 
have ^'inheritance among them which are 



1 88 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

sanctified by faith." Acts 26: i8. The 
heir must prove himself to be the heir 
before he receives his inheritance. In all 
the instances where the baptism of the 
Holy Ghost is mentioned it was upon the 
children of God, and not upon the world. 

In closing these lines on Pentecost pre- 
requisites, there is one thing I have 
intentionally left out, for a closing 
thought. 

Notice the expression, '^ freewill offer- 
ing of thine hand^ If you will look up 
the word consecration in the Old Testa- 
ment, you will find often, in the margin, 
that it gives the Hebrew meaning '^to fill 
the hand." Consecration means, literally, 
to fill the hand. The sinner, in coming 
to God for pardon, does not consecrate, 
does not come with his hands full, but 
empty-handed. He is full of ^'wounds, 
and bruises, and putrifying sores" {Isa. 
1:6)^ and whatever he would touch to fill 
his hand (consecrate) to the Lord, he 
would defile. ^'Cleanse your hands, ye 
sinners." Jas. 4:8. For pardon he 
comes empty-handed; he throws up his 
hands and makes an unconditional 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 189 

surrender, feeling sorry for his sins, con- 
fessing tlie same and forsaking them, 
calling on God to forgive him. Having 
found pardoning and regenerating grace, 
he feels now that he has something to 
give to the Lord. He wants to conse- 
crate to Him all his redeemed powers. 
He apprehends (to grasp with the hand) 
his body, a living sacrifice now, with 
its members, his time, talents, earthly 
store, influence, will, all he can think 
of, and all he cannot think of, and 
thus filling his hand, he offers it all to 
God, w^ho gladly accepts it, fulfilling the 
promise ^'that the offering up of the 
Gentiles might be acceptable, being 
sanctified by the Holy Ghost." Rom. 
15:16. 

Dear reader, let me ask you, have you 
received the Pentecostal fullness yet ? If 
not, will you not offer yourself now to be 
His, entirely, forever more, and then trust 
Him to fill you with Pentecostal fire ? 
Amen! 



CHAPTER XIV. 

THE PRIESTHOOD AND BURNT OFFERING. 

^' For the law having a shadow of good 
things to come, and not the very image 
of the things, can never with those sacri- 
fices which they offered year by year 
continually, make the comers thereunto 
perfect. 

^^He take th away the first (the type), 
that he may establish the second." Heb. 
io:i^g. 

In this chapter of the Old Testament 
shadow and Nev/ Testament substance, 
we may find a succession of steps which 
bring the believer to an intelligent 
appreciation of his work in the blessing 
of sanctification and the Lord's blessed 
acceptance and full cleansing. 

I. THE PRIESTHOOD. 

There wefe priests then. ^' Therefore 
thou and thy sons with thee shall keep 

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your priest's ofl&ce for every thing of the 
altar, and within the vail; and ye shall 
serve: I have given your priest's office 
unto you as a service of gift." Num. 

18:7. 

There are priests now. ^^Unto him 
that loved us, and washed us from our 
sins in his own blood, 

^' And hath made us kings and priests 
unto God and his Father." Rev. i .-5, 6. 

As there was, in the old dispensation, a 
service of the priesthood ministering at 
the altar, so is there to-day. 

2. THE DUTY OF THE PRIESTHOOD. 

Their duty was^ in part^ to offer sacri- 
fices. ''And thou shalt say unto them. 
This is the offering made by fire which 
ye shall offer unto the Lord." Num. 
28:3. 

Our duty is to offer sacrifice. ''Ye also, 
as lively stones, are built up a spiritual 
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up 
spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by 
Jesus Christ." / Pet. 2 : 3. 

As it was incumbent upon them to 
offer sacrifices then, so it is with us to- 
day. 



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3. THE SACRIFICE. 

Their sacrifice was some animal. ^'If 
his ofifering be a burnt sacrifice of the 
herd, let him offer a male without blem- 
ish. 

^'And if his offering be of the flocks, 
namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a 
burnt sacrifice ; he shall bring it a male 
without blemish. 

"And if the burnt sacrifice for his offer- 
ing to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall 
bring his offering of turtledoves, or of 
young pigeons." Lev. i .-j, /o, 14. 

Our sacrifice is our bodies^ ourselves. 
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by 
the mercies of God, that ye present your 
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable 
unto God, which is your reasonable 
service." Rom. 12:1. 

We find, in the foregoing sacrifices, 
that God requires of men according to 
their ability. In the Jewish sacrifice 
there are mentioned three different 
animals — those of the herd, the flock, and 
the fowl. But it was not optional which 
of these should be offered, it was accord- 
ing to their ability. If one were able to 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 193 

oflfer one of the herd, he was not permitted 
to get off cheaper with one of the flock. 
If he could ojBFer a sheep or a goat, that 
he must offer, and a dove would not be 
acceptable. But some could offer from 
neither the herd nor the flock, for they 
were poor; but anyone could secure a 
dove or a pigeon. In this we see the 
goodness of God, for His commands are 
never burdensome. 

So in our living sacrifice, it is not more 
than we have, but simply what we have ; 
not another's body, but our own body, 
ourselves. No one is required to give 
more than he is able. 

Notice again, that those sacrifices had 
to be sound, free from blemishes, and no 
part lacking, or they were not acceptable. 
So must we be sound, not defiled by sin, 
having our transgressions all forgiven, a 
living sacrifice, and no part lacking in 
our offering, nothing left out. Again, 
each burnt offering had to be placed upon 
the same altar, in the same way, upon 
the wood that was upon the fire that was 
upon the altar. This brought all to a 



194 HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 

common level — the ricli, tlie middle class, 
the poor, all came the same way. Holiness 
is a great leveler. All must come alike. 

4. THE ALTAR. 

Their sacrifice was placed upon an altar. 
^^And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall 
lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in 
order upon the wood that is on the fire 
which is upon the altar." Lev. i : 8. 
This was the ofiering from the herd, but 
that from the flock or fowls was placed 
upon the same altar, and in the same 
order. The altar was their medium of 
approach to God, and made their sacrifice 
acceptable through that channel. 

Our sacrifice is placed upon an altar. 
*'We have an altar, whereof they have no 
right to eat which serve the tabernacle." 
Heb. 13:10. Jesus said: '^ Whoso eat- 
eth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, 
hath eternal life." Jno. 6:34. ^^^ 
those who yet served the tabernacle did 
not believe in Jesus, consequently did not 
eat or partake of his flesh, so then ^^we 
have an Altar (which is Christ), whereof 
they have no right to eat which serve the 
tabernacle." 



HOLINESS TYPOLOGY 195 

Again, in / Pet, 2:5 it says ^^to offer 
up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God 
by Jesus Cbrist.'' 

As the Jewish sacrifice was acceptable 
to God by their altar, so our sacrifice is 
acceptable to God by our Altar, or Jesus 
Christ. 

5. THE ALTAR SANCTIFIES. 

Their altar sanctified their gift. '' For 
whether is greater, the gift, or the altar 
that sanctifieth the gift ? " Matt. 2j : ig. 

'^ And it shall be an altar most holy: 
whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be 
holy." Ex. 2g:jy. 

The Jewish altar, being ceremonially 
sanctified, and pronounced so by the 
Lord, was much greater than the gift, 
so it ceremonially sanctified that which 
was placed upon it. 

Our Altar sanctifies our gift. ^^ Where- 
fore Jesus also, that he might sanctify 
the people with his own blood, suffered 
without the gate." Heb. ij : 12. Our 
Altar, so much greater than our gift, is 
able, and willing, and ready to sanctify 
every living sacrifice which is placed 
upon Him. 



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Thus we find, in summing up this 
truth that in the old dispensation of 
types and shadows, there were priests, 
and in the present dispensation there are 
priests. Their duty was to offer sacrifices, 
and our duty is to offer sacrifices. Their 
sacrifice was some animal, our sacrifice is 
ourselves. Their sacrifice was placed 
upon an altar, and ours is placed upon 
an altar. Their altar was made with 
hands, and was their approach to God; 
our Altar is Christ Divine, and through 
Him we come to God. Their altar 
ceremonially sanctified the gift ; our Altar 
in reality sanctifies our gift. 

Reader, have you in reality placed 
your whole being upon the Altar in entire 
consecration to God? If not, do so at 
once, if you are a child of God. Take 
your hands off, and then swing out into 
the will of God, and believe that '' the 
Altar sanctifieth the gift." 



'' Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast, 
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest, 

Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea, 
Can wash the dismal stain away. 



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''Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone, 

Hath power sufficient to atone. 
Thy blood can make us white as snow, 

No Jewish types can cleanse us so." 



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